JeanPaul Rodrigue

Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue received a Ph.D. in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal (1994) and has been at the Department of Economics & Geography at Hofstra University since 1999. In 2008, he became part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography. Dr. Rodrigue sits on the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Shipping and Trade and the Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport. He is a board member of the University Transportation Research Center, Region II of the City University of New York and is a lead member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative. Dr. Rodrigue is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Manufacturing and a board member of the Canadian Transportation Research Forum as well as of the International Association of Maritime Economists. In 2013, the US Secretary of Transportation appointed Dr. Rodrigue to sit on the Advisory Board of the US Merchant Marine Academy. He is also the New York team leader for the MetroFreight project about city logistics. He regularly performs advisory and consulting assignments for international organizations and corporations.

Author's Posts

The Hanjin shipping bankruptcy: how big of an impact? Containers

The Hanjin shipping bankruptcy: how big of an impact?

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue For many years, the shipping industry has been in a situation of overcapacity, which was depressing rates and impairing the profitability of shipping lines. To make matters worse, almost every major shipping line was ordering larger containerships, caught in a vicious circle of trying to boost profitability...
Strategic importance of maritime clusters in the ocean economy Featured

Strategic importance of maritime clusters in the ocean economy

Concerns over the health of oceans and their ecosystems have enabled the adoption for the first time of UNCTAD's Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) exclusively dedicated to the oceans: SDG 14. This goal commits UN Member States “to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. The...
Evolution of containerships Containers

Evolution of containerships

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue An updated graph (below) on the evolution of containerships with more detailed ship profiles and a more revealing depiction of the number of containers they can load is available in The Geography of Transport Systems webpage. Since the beginning of containerization in the mid 1950s, containerships...
The Panama canal expansion: they dug it, will they come? Containers

The Panama canal expansion: they dug it, will they come?

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom Shifting Rationale The interoceanic canals of the global shipping network are undergoing a major upgrading. One year after the expansion of the Suez Canal aimed at facilitating two-way vessel traffic, we are witnessing the opening of a new and larger set of locks at the Panama Canal. The new...
Transshipment hubs in the new panamax era: the role of the Caribbean Featured

Transshipment hubs in the new panamax era: the role of the Caribbean

Transshipment hubs are perhaps the most critical component in container shipping networks. Transshipment enables traffic consolidation and the related scale economies in ship size, rationalization of shipping routes and adjustment of ship capacity to traffic density, and expanding the number of ports covered by the shipping network. The...
Dubai: logistics at the crossroads Containers

Dubai: logistics at the crossroads

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue In last two decades, Dubai emerged as a world class logistical platform, a role which is in part attributed to its geographical location at the crossroads of major trade routes between Asia, Europe, South Asia and East Africa. This role began to take shape in the 1960s when the growing availability of capital...
Driving the shipping business: containerization growth factors Containers

Driving the shipping business: containerization growth factors

Containerization growth drives shipping business, but which are the factors leading to this growth? And how does this relationship evolve? PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue was a keynote speaker at 2015 Terminals Operators Conference of the Americas held in Panama City, Panama, and discussed the issue at this premier business...
Anatomy of a Port Disaster: The Tianjin Port Explosions Featured

Anatomy of a Port Disaster: The Tianjin Port Explosions

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Successive explosions at the port of Tianjin, the third largest in the world in terms of tonnage and the 10th largest in terms of container volumes, resulted in deadly blasts in the Chinese port city. PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue, describes the anatomy of the disaster - and provides his input...
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