Author(s)

Xu Zhao, Jiao Liu and Hang Xu

Corresponding Author

Xu Zhao

ABSTRACT

Related to the realization of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), container shipping network needs to have strong survivability. The research of this paper can provides guidance for the construction of shipping network as well as the improvement of network survivability. This paper constructs a cascade failure model and designs network survivability from three aspects. Finally, simulation analysis is used to study the survivability of Maritime Silk Road (MSR) container shipping network based on cascade failure. The results show that the network has the worst survivability under the maximum load failure. Besides, the strategy of load redistribution based on the remaining capacity as well as the adding edge, etc. can effectively improve the network survivability.

KEYWORDS

Maritime Silk Road; container shipping network; cascading failure model; survivability