The global maritime transportation system carries more than 90% of the foreign trade of the U.S. and many other industrial nations — losing a port or having a canal blockaded causes serious economic consequences, so the operability of the global economy depends on the resilience of this system; the thesis models container ports, maritime chokepoints, and transportation routes as a network and applies network-science metrics to measure that resilience.

— In our words · Source: Analysis of the Global Maritime Transportation System and Its Resilience (Daniel Funk (Major)