Risk Intelligence Launches PortRisk

Denmark-based security risk intelligence company Risk Intelligence has launched PortRisk, a service that aims to deliver comprehensive and reliable intelligence on risk in ports.

PortRisk provides on-demand security information and threat, vulnerability and risk assessment covering countries, ports and cities. Together with the company’s existing maritime security intelligence tool, MaRisk, the services deliver intelligence for maritime planning, decision-making and operations.

Risk Intelligence said it supplies MaRisk to 12 percent of the world fleet with, but realized its customers were looking for something more.

“They were seeing an increasingly complex risk picture emerging in many ports, and they began to tell us they needed a one-stop port risk advisory service,” said Hans Tino Hansen, CEO of Risk Intelligence. “They had to access many channels to get port risk information, and they often found the information they were getting to be unreliable and outdated.”

The eventual result was PortRisk, which together with MaRisk now makes up Risk Intelligence’s improved multiplatform maritime security intelligence system.

Just as at sea, risk in ports comes in many forms; be it political unrest, theft, armed robbery, smuggling, corruption, stowaways - all have to be considered when planning and executing port calls.

Dealing with this multifaceted risk picture effectively requires advance knowledge. If shipowners and operators are informed about port risk factors in advance, they can take preventative measures, like putting more guards on watch, according to Risk Intelligence. If they don’t know beforehand, they remain vulnerable.

The new solution combining MaRisk and PortRisk has already been introduced to the maritime industry at launch events in Oslo and London, with the next events scheduled for Hamburg, Dubai and Singapore.