Port resilience in the post-COVID-19 era

Jin Liu; Ye Qi; Wenjing Lyu

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106565

Port resilience in the post-COVID-19 era

Ocean Coast Manag. 2023 May 1:238:106565. doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106565. Epub 2023 Mar 13.

Authors

Jin Liu¹, Ye Qi¹, Wenjing Lyu²

Affiliations

¹ School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
² Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.

Abstract

With the COVID-19 pandemic evitably becoming the "New Normality" and will continue to impact human society much longer than anticipated, it is essential to explore effective measures that global ports can take to adapt to unexpected challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. This paper builds a port resilience index system based on the entropy weight method from a multistakeholder's view. We utilize the port resilience index system for 22 major Chinese ports during 2020-2021. We further investigate the direct impact of port resilience on port governance performance. Our results indicate that resiliently-governed ports can guarantee higher port throughput while sustaining lower congestion when facing challenges from the global pandemic.

Keywords: Port congestion; Port governance; Port resilience; Port throughput.