Pacific maritime transport systems: Hazard exposure technical note

This Technical Note aims to assist technical specialists, client country teams, and donors, to identify needs and priorities for more detailed, site-specific risk studies. These risk studies will form the basis of port master planning, project design, asset management, and capital upgrade projects, as appropriate, to increase resilience in ports to the impacts of natural hazards. This note supplements the overarching regional report 'A Blue Transformation for Pacific Maritime Transport (World Bank, 2022)'. 

The publication recommends the following: 

• For ports that have been or are in the process of being upgraded: Ensure port master plans and strategic asset management plans, supported by a port-specific strategic risk management framework, are drawn up, or confirm that these are in place and audited for completeness, to be applied by the port owners and operators.
• For ports for which studies or works are planned: Ensure preparation includes comprehensive natural hazard assessments on which to base master plans, asset management plans, risk management frameworks, and designs for risk reduction works.
• For ports where no studies or upgrades are in the pipeline: Undertake comprehensive natural hazard impact assessments, which can be used to develop response and recovery plans, at least, and a basic master plan and risk assessment.