An approach to improveselected risk assessment methods in seaports

The scope of the paper is to introduce the solution for improving the risk management methods for seaports. First, the paper presents general information about ports and their main business scope. Next, we introduce the definition of critical infrastructure (CI) according to the EU directive, and we apply it to seaports. The paper also presents the basic concepts of dependencies and interdependencies and introduces a general classification of natural hazards and threats of influencing ports. Moreover, the multiple criteria decision analysis, particularly the application of the AHP method, is presented as the solution for improving seaports risk assessment based on scenarios. Finally, some examples of different approaches for risk assessment improving are presented