Cesar Ducruet

Dr. César Ducruet is geographer and Research Director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the research laboratory UMR 7235 EconomiX (Paris-Nanterre University). His research interests include network analysis, urban & regional development, and spatial analysis, through the looking glass of ports and shipping networks, with a special focus on Europe and Asia. After being post-doctoral fellow in South Korea (KRIHS) and The Netherlands (Erasmus University), he joined the CNRS and worked as expert for various organisations (OECD, World Bank, Korea Maritime Institute), and guest lectured regularly abroad. Cesar is a member of the STAR Alliance (HK) and editorial board member of Journal of Transport Geography. After leading the ERC Starting Grant "World Seastems" (2013-2019) he also worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO). He edited two books with Routledge on "Maritime Networks" (2015) and "Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling" (2017) and co-edited "Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy" (2021) with Elsevier. He has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 30 book chapters in the last 15 years or so. All my publications online: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/index/q/*/authIdHal_s/cesar-ducruet

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New book: advances in shipping data analysis and modeling

Shipping flows – maritime ‘footprints’ – remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development. Additionally, decision-makers lack a comprehensive view on how shipping flows can be measured, analyzed, and mapped in order to support their...
The polarization of global container flows by interoceanic canals Containers

The polarization of global container flows by interoceanic canals

It is widely acknowledged that the two major interoceanic canals of Suez and Panama play a central role in global shipping flows. However, this role has rarely been measured with precision both in terms of the geographic coverage and network topological properties of canal-dependent flows. Based on vessel movement data for...
Maritime networks: spatial structures and time dynamics PortStudies

Maritime networks: spatial structures and time dynamics

PortEconomics accosiate member César Ducruet edited the last book of Roudledge on "Maritime Networks: Spatial Structures and Time Dynamics" (Series: Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis). Maritime transport is one of the most ancient supports to human interactions across history and it still supports more than 90% of world trade...
Global maritime connectivity: a long-term perspective Viewpoints

Global maritime connectivity: a long-term perspective

Macroscopic patterns of global maritime flows  and global trade growth has inevitably resulted in a regular increase in the number of ports and vessels since the late nineteenth century. Yet the number of inter-port links and vessel calls has fluctuated much more widely. Over the last 125 years, three peaks of global maritime activity...
Container vessel turnaround times across the world Containers

Container vessel turnaround times across the world

There is a wide range of studies on port efficiency but curiously enough, these studies have never focused on turnaround times in ports, despite this being considered as a key indicator of efficiency. More often we see studies in operations research about queuing models of vessels in relation to port entrance channels and berth...
DEVPORT project maps logistics corridors in N. France maritime regions Noticeboard

DEVPORT project maps logistics corridors in N. France maritime regions

PortEconomics Associate member Cesar Ducruet act as a member of the research team of DEVPORT project. DEVPORT project - a regionally funded project coordinated by Prof. Laurent Leveque (Le Havre University) aiming at mapping the logistics corridor of the Seine Axis at different scales and applying modeling and GIS methods as well as...
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