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India to build two new ports.

Yemen Seizes Ship Carrying Weapons.

Malaysia: Maritime crime down by 45%.

New York Harbor "unlikely" to fully reopen Wednesday: U.S. Coast Guard.

Far from being the silent, dreamlike landscape we often imagine, the sea is peppered with animal sounds, a chorus of clicks, snaps and howls.

China, US launch radiation checks at Shanghai port.

U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz.

Houston Ship Channel traffic stopped by cold, wind-Coast Guard.

Somali Pirates Now Protect Illegal Fishing Vessels, UN Reports.

Oblique icebreaker gives better access to Arctic waters.

A single oil spill can release 30,000 tonnes of oil into the ocean if two vessels collide. In grounding the high weight can lead to oil disaster, in the Baltic Sea up to 120 000 tonnes. This estimate does not include the new giant tankers.

A single oil spill can release 30,000 tonnes of oil into the ocean if two vessels collide. In grounding the high weight can lead to oil disaster, in the Baltic Sea up to 120 000 tonnes. This estimate does not include the new giant tankers.

Turkey shuts Bosphorus strait to shipping after vessel collides with villa.

Turkey shuts Bosphorus strait to shipping after vessel collides with villa.

Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and technological revolutions in the shipping industry have resulted in both network extension and rationalization. However, lack of precise data on inter-port relations prevent the application of wide network theories to global maritime container networks, which are often examined through case studies of specific firms or regions. This paper presents an analysis of the global liner shipping network in 1996 and 2006, a period of rapid change in port hierarchies and liner service configurations. While it refers to literature on port system development, shipping networks, and port selection, it is one of the only analyses of the properties of the global container shipping network. The paper analyzes the relative position of ports in the global network through indicators of centrality. The results reveal a certain level of robustness in the global shipping network. While transhipment hub flows and gateway flows might slightly shift among nodes in the network, the network properties remain rather stable in terms of the main nodes polarizing the network and the overall structure of the system. Additionally, mapping the changing centrality of ports confirms the impacts of global trade and logistics shifts on the port hierarchy and indicates that changes are predominantly geographic.

Towards an upswing in international maritime transport.