Risk and Incident Management in a Port Environment 2026

This course is practice-oriented with a preventive and reactive component. The first part of the
course will focus on preventive risk management in ports. In the second part, participants will be
given tools for reactive incident management. Both parts include a theoretical and practical
framework in which participants will actively think about the application in their own ports. The
program consists of 3 modules:

Introduction to risk management in ports
. Definition of risk management
. Types of risks in a port environment
. Responsibilities in risk management
. Risk analysis and emergency response plan
. Tools and techniques to create risk assessment models
. Benchmark of risk analysis: European compared to Caribbean ports
. Best practices & standards – local framework in the Caribbean region

Introduction to incident management in ports
. Incident response frameworks
. Emergency response cooperation with ports & cities
. Emergency response coordination & internal crisis organization
. Nautical cases
. Root cause analysis, communication and reporting during and after incidents

Incident response exercise
. Exercises on incident response methods through scenarios
. Comparison of scenarios based on case studies
. Port tour