Climate resilience assessments for ports

When your port is responsible for multiple critical pieces of infrastructure and the operations that support them to get cargo in and out, all climate change risks could impact your ability to operate. Royal HaskoningDHV’s maritime engineers and climate resilience experts can help you understand your risk profile and how to futureproof your facility.

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Climate change risk assessment for ports

Maritime facilities play a vital role in bridging land and sea. But this means they’re susceptible to several climate change impacts – including rising sea levels, flooding, and operational disruption due to extreme wind, storms or temperature changes.

To protect your facility and ensure business continuity while minimising supply chain interruptions from the port, it is crucial to understand your potential climate risks and prepare a tailored adaptation plan. Our team provides industry-leading guidance for climate change adaptation in ports, combining expertise in multi-hazard climate change risk analysis and extensive experience in maritime design and operations.

We’ll define the scope of a climate resilience assessment for your facility, incorporating a science-based engineering approach. This involves understanding climate change risk and conducting vulnerability assessments to identify critical assets and operations at risk. We then prioritise adaptation measures to inform the development of a comprehensive resilience plan and investment rationale.

Multidisciplinary climate risk assessment support

With a combined team of experts – including climate change risk analysts, port and maritime engineers, green port experts, and economists – we have the technical skills and industry and regulatory knowledge to develop climate adaptation and resilience strategies that meet the needs of your region.

We can help you:

Collect climate data, including in-house climate data and exposure analysis for global portfolio assessments, through our Twinn Climate Intelligence App
Assess climate change risks to determine how physical climate hazards could affect your port assets and operations – now and in the future
Identify and understand the most critical climate risks facing your facility
Effectively manage climate risks at specific sites
Plan for and implement climate adaptation and resilience measures
Prepare for climate financial disclosure reporting to communicate climate impact data

The four stages of assessing and addressing climate risk at your port

Take a holistic approach to sustainability

Of course, adapting and becoming more resilient to the impacts of climate change is just one part of becoming a greener port. Get insight into your current sustainability status with our quick scan assessment green port tool.

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Green Ports Maturity Scan

Take our green port maturity score to understand your port’s current maturity, and get tailored recommendations for further sustainability improvements. And our experts are always on hand if you want to discuss your specific needs further.

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