Risk-Based Design of Maritime Transport Systems

Abstract

This chapter provides an approach to modelling and analysis of supply chain vulnerabilities due to physical and functional interdependencies in maritime transport systems. The results of the analysis are risk of supply breaches of the commodities transported by the system. The risk analysis is set into the context of development of infrastructure for maritime transport systems, where industrial shipping systems are used as an example. The risk analysis is used to balance the scale of the system's infrastructure against an assessment of the requirements and vulnerabilities of the system's dependents. The maritime transport system is here regarded as a critical infrastructure for supply of required commodities into a region.

Exploring the Factors that Affect the Resilience of Port Organizational Ecosystems through a Survey of Common Uncertainties

“…Based on findings presented earlier, the complexity of the seaport ecosystem's operational environment emphasises that the functioning of the port ecosystem cannot be defined only by aggregation factors, but should be considered as an emerging phenomenon encompassing the components of an ecosystem's vulnerability and adaptive capacity [38]. Vulnerability within the seaport organizational ecosystem may be defined as one of the properties of this ecosystem, its premises, facilities, required infrastructure and equipment, inter-and intra-organizational constructions, including contracts, incentives, human resources, human organization and all its software, hardware and netware, that may weaken or limit the ecosystem's ability to fight the threats and survive disruptions that originate both within and outside of the boundaries of the logistic supply chain ecosystem [3], [39], [40].…”