When it comes to represent reality, such as movement of transports, over a map, cartographers face…
César DUCRUET
Geographer, Senior Researcher at the CNRS and Laboratory EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre. Paris, France.
César Ducruet, geographer, is senior researcher at the CNRS and Laboratory EconomiX in Paris-Nanterre. His work is devoted to the local impacts of contemporary maritime globalisation, from the perspectives of shipping networks, socio-economic development, environment and health issues. He is currently the P.I. of the ANR-funded 'MAGNETICS' research project (2023-2026) “Maritime Globalisation, Network Externalities, and Transport Impacts on Cities”.
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The speed of trade. Empirical analysis of vessel voyage and turnaround times across world container ports (1977-2016) [1]
The ability of ports to ensure efficient cargo transfers is one central dimension of their overall…
Measuring land-sea interactions at ports and cities: insights from geomatics and network analysis
Geographers (Rimmer, 1967) and historians (Person, 1985) early addressed certain critiques to existing port-city and port-hinterland…
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis. Contributions to maritime studies
The last two years 2016 and 2017 have been particularly productive in terms of large-scale, edited…
GeoSeastems: an innovative tool to map global shipping flows. Application to the Mediterranean region
In the last ten years or so, online visualizations of maritime data become more and more…
Port-city relationships and global maritime flows in the last 120 years
Surprisingly, the analysis of port cities based on their maritime linkages is a new perspective in…
Inter-Korean maritime flows: beyond the border?
The border between North Korea and South Korea is one of the world’s largest gaps of…
Interview – The man who brought containerisation to Europe
Mr. Jean-Claude Morel is perhaps the most experienced person I have ever met, given his long…
Maritime networks in space and time
The international workshop “Maritime networks in space and time” (Paris, 16-18 June 2014) is probably the…
The World Seastems research project (2013-2018)
Maritime flows have been carrying the bulk of global trade for centuries. They can be seen…
Waterfront redevelopment: the fragility of local benefits
After decades of waterfront redevelopment, there is a crucial need to discuss what have been the…