Selecting the Strategic Port of “the Belt and Road” Based on the Global Network

Table 8

A joint coverage matrix of strategically important “superior” ports.

		The number of ports crossed by the shortest path
		Superior	General	Inferior
Betweenness centrality	Superior	Piraeus Port Terminal, Aden Port, Cherchell Port	Hong Kong, Singapore Port, Nouakchott Port, Cape Town Port, Fremantle Port, New York Port, Colon Port, Panama City Port	Santos Port
	General	Por Said Port, Suez Port, Tunisia Port, Jeddah, Mumbai Port, Colombo Port
	Inferior