Add to ORKGWith the recent advent of computer-based communication technologies, tran-sportation networks have become an important factor in the global interaction, as a real part of a virtual business. The world in the transportation and supply chain view may be described as being connected by a lattice of networks. As liner routes create a network, the authors are using the network analysis starting with the data that describ the set of relationships among the ports- mem-bers of a system. The goal of analysis is to obtain, from the low-level relational data, a higher-level description of the structure of the system. The higher-level des-cription identifies various kinds of patterns in the set of relationships. These pa-tterns will be based on the way...