Safe Harbours: The Evolving Role of Ports in Sustaining Resilient Global Trade

Ports sit at the heart of global trade, but the environment in which they operate is becoming increasingly complex. Climate change, geopolitical disruption and digital transformation are reshaping the infrastructure, investment decisions and commercial relationships that keep goods moving around the world.

In the second report in BRG’s Global Infrastructure Series: Transport, BRG experts and leading maritime lawyers examine how these pressures are changing the role of ports and creating new areas of legal and commercial risk. The report explores:

• the challenge of building climate resilience while adapting port infrastructure for the energy transition
• how geopolitical disruption, sanctions and changing trade routes alter the maritime landscape
• the growing importance of digital infrastructure, data and cybersecurity to port resilience
• how overlapping risks create new questions around contracts, investment and the allocation of responsibility when disruption occurs

Revisit our first instalment of the transport infrastructure series: Risk of Derailment: What Is Driving Disputes in Global Railway Projects?