Share your experience on extreme weather events

More than 40 ports worldwide have already responded to the IAPH-PIANC survey on extreme weather events. This is encouraging, but we’d like to invite more ports to share information on the consequences and costs of extreme meteorological and/or oceanographic events. The survey includes questions on port or waterway closures, delays and downtime, and on clean up, maintenance, damage repair and other measures.  It also considers wider issues, for example the role of warning systems.  Results from the survey will be published in an aggregate format to help inform port and waterway decisions on investment in resilience by facilitating understanding of the consequences of inaction. The survey is part of the Navigating a Changing Climate initiative of PIANC, the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure. 

Although the survey will remain open until the end of the year, a first round of results will be presented early October. We therefore warmly encourage you to take the survey now. The questions are deliberately generic, both to make it easy to complete the survey (it only takes 10-15 minutes) and to maintain confidentiality. More background information is available here.

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