The Infrastructure Services Unit (ISU) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP) of the Organization of American States (OAS) organized the webinar “A new port reality: Resilience to cyber-attacks and other risk factors”, with PortEconomics member Riracrdo Sanchez, along with Eliana Barleta and Fabio Weikert presenting their perspectives on “Resilience and port risks” (“Resiliencia y riesgos portuarios”).
The risks in the shipping and port sector are associated with two fundamental characteristics: their diversity and their simultaneity. In a globalized sector, such as the maritime shipping where ports are the main intermediates for this business, the diversity, and simultaneity of risk that encompasses this sector is a subject of main importance.
Giving continuity to the study ¨Reflections on the future of container ports, in this seminar, ECLAC analyzed threats and risks to the current progress of ports, such as COVID-19 and cyber-attacks.
More than 270 people linked to the maritime port activity in Latin America and the Caribbean participated in this webinar, giving continuity to the work that ECLAC is implementing for the elaboration of a matrix of risks, whose objective is to facilitate an analytical guide that allows evaluating in a complete way the situation of the ports and the challenges that they face in the future in a post-COVID-19 scenario.
The presentations are available (in Spanish) at ECLAC’s website.
