Posts tagged with "Jean-Paul Rodrigue"

St. Lawrence: Time for a dual container port strategy? Containers

St. Lawrence: Time for a dual container port strategy?

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue The St. Lawrence, as a gateway to Eastern Canada, is contemplating an emerging risk in the Post Panamax context, which is undermining its commercial viability for containerized maritime shipping. The Port of Quebec handled containers in the early stages of containerization, but by the late 1970s all this...
Mariana-Max containership class introduced Containers

Mariana-Max containership class introduced

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue In June 14th, the Maersk-MSC-CMA-CGM-Amazon-Alibaba-Citibank-Allianz (MMCCAACA) shipping line announced the introduction of its latest ship class, the Mariana-Max. The 350,000 to 400,000 TEUs ships (depending on the load configuration) will service selected Pacific routes, over which it will replace the...
Big data vs small data: container port traffic and maritime connectivity Containers

Big data vs small data: container port traffic and maritime connectivity

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (ASD), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement have emphasized the need for all economic sectors, including maritime transport to monitor and measure performance and track progress towards the achievement of relevant economic, social and environmental...
The bottlenecks of global maritime shipping as transshipment clusters Featured

The bottlenecks of global maritime shipping as transshipment clusters

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Bottlenecks of global maritime shipping have been for decades the object of geostrategic considerations as obligatory points of passages for global trade. More recently, their geographical advantage inciting the convergence of shipping services in narrow areas has been expanded with the setting of transshipment...
Integration between port and airport terminals Featured

Integration between port and airport terminals

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Conventionally, ports and airports are not considered to be integrated since they service different supply chains, namely high value goods for air transport and bulk commodities for maritime transport. Maritime and air cargo were typically incompatible, implying that port and airport operations were planned...
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...
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