A decision support methodology for risk management within a port terminal

The objective of this paper is to analyze and assess operational risk within the port terminals at the RO–RO activity. The paper proposes a specific methodology based on AHP multicriteria approach. After detection of the inherent risk of process and estimation of the both gravity and level of mastery we judge against two approaches in order to identify the most critical risks and to establish preventive measures.

Graphical abstractAt the end of the procedure, an analysis of the problem of operational risk assessment is approved, so that all solutions are multiplied by the weight of the simple decision criteria and the results are summarized in Figure 11. The alternatives which are more valuable, in fact, are the most probable risks. We note that the first six risks namely R3, R2, R1, R7, R8 and R9 generate almost 80% of risk. And, the risks R3, R2 and R1 generate 50% of all risks.Figure optionsDownload full-size imageDownload as PowerPoint slide