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An ocean of data: The potential of data on vessel traffic

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  • Graham Pilgrim
  • Emmanuelle Guidetti
  • Annabelle Mourougane

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Rising uncertainties and geo-political tensions, together with increasingly complex trade relations have increased the demand for monitoring global trade in a timely manner. Although it was primarily designed to ensure vessel safety, information from the Automatic Information System, which allows for the tracking of vessels across the globe, is particularly well suited for providing insights on port activity and maritime trade developments, which accounts for a large share of global trade. Data are available in quasi real time but need to be pre-processed and validated. This paper contributes to existing research in this field in two major ways. First, it proposes a new methodology to identify ports, at a higher level of granularity than in past research. Second, it builds indicators to monitor port congestion and trends in maritime trade flows and provides more granular information to better understand those flows. Those indicators will still need to be refined, by complementing the AIS database with additional data sources, but already provide a useful source of information to monitor trade, at the country and global levels.

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  • Graham Pilgrim & Emmanuelle Guidetti & Annabelle Mourougane, 2024. "An ocean of data: The potential of data on vessel traffic," OECD Statistics Working Papers 2024/02, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:stdaaa:2024/02-en
    DOI: 10.1787/34b7a926-en
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    Keywords

    big data; maritime trade; port activity; port congestion;
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    JEL classification:

    • C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
    • F17 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Forecasting and Simulation
    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access

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