A systematic review of resilience in the maritime transport

ABSTRACT

Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and the global economy. Resilience is essential for business continuity and handling unforeseen disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies on resilience in maritime transport (i.e. maritime resilience in the study) have become popular due to disruptive events. To date, no research has exclusively reviewed resilience in maritime transport. This study conducts a systematic review of maritime resilience based on 110 papers in the Scopus database and Google Scholar from 2010 to July 2022. The analysis covers various topics, including the most published authors, the most cited articles, co-word analysis, research techniques, etc. The primary significance of this study is to assess the state of existing knowledge on maritime resilience and to unearth future research directions, which might help academics and practitioners decide what future studies to pursue. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review study on marine resilience.

KEYWORDS:

• Maritime resilience
• resilient port
• port resilience
• disruptions
• supply chain resilience

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Data availability

The dataset used in this paper is available from the first author upon request.

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (22AGL020).