Port authority bulletin - July 2026

The world’s port authorities are fundamental to global trade.

Their quays, jetties, docks, cranes, marshalling yards, warehouses and workboats provide the key link between the sea and land journeys that have always been undertaken by most international cargo shipments. But ports are facing unprecedented challenges, with unstable geopolitics, cleaner energy, larger ships, smarter technology and changing climate all reshaping their risk landscape. 

This second issue of TT Club’s port authority bulletin starts with the complex, multi-faceted challenge of building resilience into port operations. It then looks at two options for decarbonisation in ports, from onshore power supply at one end of the scale to using of electric work boats at the other. The overall goal is to be ‘climate ready’, for which TT Club has produced a new guide.

Other topics include how to manage the risks from sinking ships and saltwater crocodiles, and how a port in the UK to helping to train the next generation of workers in the offshore renewable energy sector.

ports are facing unprecedented challenges, with unstable geopolitics, cleaner energy, larger ships, smarter technology and changing climate all reshaping their risk landscape.