Port resilience : Port of Pori: challenges to resilience and how to manage them
Piipponen, Henna-Riikka (2025)
2025
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Ports play a critical role in global trade, making it essential to continually strengthen their resilience in the face of growing global uncertainty. In the port context, resilience refers to the ability to withstand shocks, absorb and minimize disruptions, restore operations rapidly, and adapt to changing conditions while supporting continuous development and transformation.
This master’s thesis studied how risk management is carried out in ports, examined the concept and importance of port resilience, and identified relevant guidelines, regulations, and tools for managing and enhancing resilience.
The work began with a literature review, which provided a theoretical foundation and was supported by interviews with various stakeholders, including those outside the port organization of the case study. Based on these insights, the thesis ultimately developed implementation proposals for integrating the identified resilience challenges of the Port of Pori into its risk management framework.
Based on the literature review and interviews, the challenges related to port resilience have been identified quite comprehensively, and corresponding strengthening measures have been addressed. For the Port of Pori, no deficiencies were detected; however, improvements and development suggestions were proposed for certain areas to further support the enhancement of resilience. The emphasis is placed on strengthening access control, improving preparedness exercises, advancing the development of standardized risk management procedures, optimizing current and future human resource allocation, well-founded investment decisions and increasingly focusing on identification of black swan risks.
This master’s thesis studied how risk management is carried out in ports, examined the concept and importance of port resilience, and identified relevant guidelines, regulations, and tools for managing and enhancing resilience.
The work began with a literature review, which provided a theoretical foundation and was supported by interviews with various stakeholders, including those outside the port organization of the case study. Based on these insights, the thesis ultimately developed implementation proposals for integrating the identified resilience challenges of the Port of Pori into its risk management framework.
Based on the literature review and interviews, the challenges related to port resilience have been identified quite comprehensively, and corresponding strengthening measures have been addressed. For the Port of Pori, no deficiencies were detected; however, improvements and development suggestions were proposed for certain areas to further support the enhancement of resilience. The emphasis is placed on strengthening access control, improving preparedness exercises, advancing the development of standardized risk management procedures, optimizing current and future human resource allocation, well-founded investment decisions and increasingly focusing on identification of black swan risks.