Topic: Developing Resilience for Safer and More Resilient Arctic Shipping
Speaker: Adolf K.Y. Ng (St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
Time: 30th Nov. 2021, 15:00
Online Tencent Meeting ID：
https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/Zbi8eIbADTym
ID: 259-135-493
Off Line Venue: Lecture Hall at College of Transport and Communications
Abstract: Arctic shipping growth urgently calls for assessment tools to explore whether existing practice addresses expected safety and resilience level appropriately, especially considering the enforcement of the Polar Code since 2017. Understanding such, we analyze the resilience of Arctic shipping using the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP), for which the necessary data for measurement was gathered starting from a research voyage through the Northwest Passage. It resulted in 61 valid responses upon which the relative importance and the level of satisfaction of resilience builders were investigated. The results are then used to develop an importance-satisfaction diagram which helps identify measures requiring urgent actions in establishing safer and more resilient Arctic shipping. Analysis shows that factors that rank high on the importance scale are, in many cases, not high on the satisfaction scale, thus questioning the credibility on the current approaches in promoting safe and resilient Arctic shipping.
Biography: Adolf K.Y. Ng is a professor and senior fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Obtained his DPhil from University of Oxford, UK, his research interests include maritime transport and logistics, climate change adaptation and resilience, Arctic shipping and development, and logistics education. He is the editor of Maritime Policy & Management and Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics and is highly successful in securing competitive research grants, with nearly 30 funded projects that amounts to CAD 15 million to his name. With such background, he frequently serves in major grant panels, such as the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Research Manitoba.