Special Issue "Comparative North American and European Gateway Logistics". An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston MA, 15-17 April 2008.International audienceWhile maritime transport ensures about 90% of world trade volumes, it has not yet attracted as much attention as other transport systems from a graph perspective. As a result, the relative situation and the evolution of seaports within maritime networks are not well understood. This paper wishes verifying to what extent the hub-and-spoke strategies of ports and ocean carriers have modified the structure of a maritime network, based on the Atlantic case. We apply graph measures and clustering method...