Delivering Dual-Use Resilience in Practice: A Port Operator Perspective

A New Geopolitical Reality for the UK Maritime Sector The UK finds itself navigating an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment. The return of major or even ‘great’ power competition, the growth of grey-zone or sub-threshold activity in cyber and subsea environments, state-adjacent actors like shadow fleet vessels, and the accelerated militarisation of areas such as the High North and the Indo-Pacific are reshaping expectations of national resilience. This turbulence is mirrored in Europe, where the Russian invasion of Ukraine has dramatically reignited attention on logistics mass, indu…