A Process Model for Cooperative Risk Management in Seaports

Abstract

Seaports are critical links within supply chains that are often located near residential areas. These seaports can be directly affected by the consequences of operational risk sources and natural disasters such as undeclared dangerous goods and flood, respectively. The diversity and large number of stakeholders at seaports add another level of complexity for risk management that requires a standard approach and clear guidelines. This paper aims to develop a prescriptive process model for cooperative risk management (CoRiMaS) in seaports to enable the stakeholder to manage different sources of risk during risk prevention and response. The prescriptive process model builds on two previous published papers which focused on developing a conceptual framework and a descriptive model based on an ontology for CoRiMaS, respectively. A detailed requirement analysis based on focus groups and a survey study in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) provide important inputs to integrate the required elements into the CoRiMaS prescriptive process model. The model requires an overall input represented by the type of seaport and structure. The prescriptive process model presents all steps and aspects related to stakeholder analysis, risk governance, risk management, and knowledge management. Implications for theory and practice, as well as an agenda for future research, are presented.

Considerations on Prevention of Pollution from Ships in a Seaport

“…Environmental risks can arise at all stages of the port and terminal life cycle [46] and involve [47][48][49][50][51][52] ship emissions, dust emissions, dredging, oil spills, chemical contaminants, ballast waters, noise pollution, alien species, etc. Forms of concretization of mentioned risks categories-negative effects of pollution could be very different.…”

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“…The study by Nagi and Kersten (2022) examined the problem of cooperation between stakeholders in the transportation process in seaports. The authors declared the idea of creating a model of the risk management process of stakeholders, which are grouped into natural and those that take place in the supply chain.…”