Van Ballegooyen, RSiyakatshana, NjabuloEngelbrecht, FDaniels, TBeakam, VRossouw, MMateyisi, Mohau JTroch, Christophe NAZwane, NosiphoSmith, GMbatha, N2025-05-022025-05-022024-04http://hdl.handle.net/10204/14232South Africa's ports play a major role in the country's economy. Should climate-related infrastructure damage or operational disruption occur, this could have severe "knock-on" effects to the wider economy. Consequently, Transnet, since 2010, has been in the process of developing an integrated Climate Change Strategy across its operations, commencing with a preliminary Risk and Vulnerability assessment for all Transnet Operating divisions in 2010, followed in 2014 by a first-level risk and vulnerability assessment for the Transnet National Port Authority to assess potential drivers of climate-change risk to port infrastructure, operational support systems, activities related to safety and long-term sustainability of the eight ports they presently manage. Only once the climate-related changes in these key environmental drivers are adequately understood and characterised at a local scale, is it possible to assess climate change risks in each port with sufficient rigour to ensure that any proposed adaptation measures are both appropriate and economically justified. Presented here is initial progress with a TNPA-funded, multi-year, collaborative effort by a consortium of scientist and engineers from range of local institutions and consultancies in making such a detailed Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment informing the development of Adaptation strategies for South African Ports.FulltextenClimate changeRisk and vulnerability assessmentClimate-change adaptation strategiesConference Presentationn/a