Mapping the global liquefied natural gas trade network: A perspective of maritime transportation

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124640

	Mapping the global liquefied natural gas trade network: A perspective of maritime transportation
	Peng, Peng 1,3; Lu, Feng 1,3,4,5; Cheng, Shifen 1,3; Yang, Yu 1,2
刊名	JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
	2021-02-10
卷号	283 页码:9
关键词	Liquefied natural gas trade Vessel trajectory data Complex network Hub port Trading community Trade pattern
ISSN号	0959-6526
DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124640
通讯作者	Lu, Feng(luf@lreis.ac.cn)
英文摘要	As the demand for sustainable energy sources is increasing globally, the popularization and application of clean energy has become an inevitable trend. Natural gas is playing an increasingly vital role in global energy consumption. The vast majority of natural gas is transported between ports in vessels in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the geographical separation between the supply and demand countries. Analyzing its transportation pattern is of great significance for optimizing trade strategies between countries and ensuring their energy import and export security. However, existing knowledge on detailed trade patterns at the port level is limited. In this study, we adopted a set of network indices and a classic community detection method to investigate global LNG transportation networks using mass vessel trajectory data collected from 2013 to 2017. The results show that 1) the LNG transportation network is characterized by closer connections; 2) Singapore, Ras Laffan, and Khawr Fakkan have the most important roles in the LNG transportation network; 3) the global LNG trade network has developed several closely connected trading communities since 2013, and ports within individual communities have gradually become more geographically concentrated; and 4) the global LNG trade network has evolved into three closely linked trading zones, i.e., a zone encompassing some of the ports in the Middle East, Australia, Singapore, East Asia, and Southeast Asia; a zone encompassing the remaining ports of the Middle East, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and Europe; and the ports in the Americas, which is a relatively independent trade zone. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
资助项目	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2020T130644] ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2019M660774] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA23100500]
WOS关键词	LNG TRADE ; MARKETS ; PATTERN ; FUTURE ; PORTS
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000609032700020
资助机构	China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/136426]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Lu, Feng
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, State Key Lab Resources & Environm Informat Syst, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 4.Jiangsu Ctr Collaborat Innovat Geog Informat Reso, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China 5.Fuzhou Univ, Acad Digital China, Fuzhou 350002, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Peng, Peng,Lu, Feng,Cheng, Shifen,et al. Mapping the global liquefied natural gas trade network: A perspective of maritime transportation[J]. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,2021,283:9.
APA	Peng, Peng,Lu, Feng,Cheng, Shifen,&Yang, Yu.(2021).Mapping the global liquefied natural gas trade network: A perspective of maritime transportation.JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,283,9.
MLA	Peng, Peng,et al."Mapping the global liquefied natural gas trade network: A perspective of maritime transportation".JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 283(2021):9.