methods to maritime flows connecting cities of the world, over the period 1950–1990. A global matrix of interurban vessel … flows was elaborated for about 600 cities using data from the Geopolis and Lloyd’s Shipping Index databases and the rigorous … diminishing importance in world traffic, they have maintained their dominance in the network in terms of centrality and geographic …

Over 90 % of the world trade volumes is being carried by sea nowadays. This figure shows the massive importance of the … maritime trade routes for the world economy. However, the evolution of their structure over time is a white spot in the modern … literature. In this paper we characterise and study topological changes of the maritime trade network and how they translate into …