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Reference catalog v1
Supply chain riskPorts & Shipping

Ports & Shipping supply chain risk

Ports & Shipping carries a process risk of 59.5 out of 100 — the elevated band, and rank 19 of 33 sectors in the Tieron reference catalog. That figure is independent of location: it is what the work itself carries. Where you buy then moves the baseline from 35.4 in Denmark to 69.7 in Russia. Every figure below shows its weight and its source.

Sector risk
59.5
Elevated · rank 19 of 33
Highest baseline
69.7
Russia
Lowest baseline
35.4
Denmark
Axis covered
50%
of the risk axis by weight

What ports & shipping carries — five factors

Sector process risk, 0–100, before location. Sector risk: 59.5.

Sub-factorScoreRelative
Process hazard70.0
Labour intensity & informality70.0
Environmental load55.0
Upstream depth (tiers below)20.0
Regulatory exposure70.0

Every sourcing country, ranked for ports & shipping

Baseline risk for a supplier in this sector and that country, riskiest first. This is the sourcing-shift comparison: the same work, moved.

CountryBaselineCountry compositeBand
Russia69.779.9Elevated
Nigeria69.579.5Elevated
Philippines68.377.0Elevated
Turkey67.876.1Elevated
Indonesia67.074.6Elevated
Egypt67.074.5Elevated
India66.974.2Elevated
Ukraine66.773.9Elevated
ChinaUFLPA65.972.3Elevated
Thailand65.571.4Elevated
Kenya63.467.2Elevated
Malaysia63.267.0Elevated
Vietnam63.166.7Elevated
Hong Kong62.966.3Elevated
Sri Lanka62.765.9Elevated
Saudi Arabia62.365.1Elevated
Serbia61.162.8Elevated
Qatar60.962.2Elevated
Mexico60.060.4Elevated
Nepal59.459.2Elevated
United Arab Emirates59.459.2Elevated
South Korea59.258.9Elevated
Hungary58.457.3Elevated
Morocco57.755.9Elevated
Greece57.154.7Elevated
South Africa56.453.4Elevated
Israel56.052.5Elevated
United States53.948.2Moderate
Romania53.647.8Moderate
Poland52.044.6Moderate
United Kingdom51.443.4Moderate
Belgium48.136.7Moderate
Italy48.036.6Moderate
Canada47.635.7Moderate
Spain46.633.7Moderate
Portugal46.132.8Moderate
Czechia45.832.1Moderate
Taiwan45.631.8Moderate
Switzerland45.531.6Moderate
France44.228.9Moderate
Japan43.527.6Moderate
Australia42.625.8Moderate
Singapore42.325.2Moderate
Netherlands41.924.3Moderate
Finland39.319.1Moderate
Ireland37.816.1Moderate
Germany37.315.2Moderate
Sweden37.014.5Moderate
Norway36.513.5Moderate
Denmark35.411.3Moderate

What this page cannot tell you

Country and sector are 50% of Tieron’s risk axis by weight — the half that is knowable from public data alone. The rest is supplier-specific: conflict minerals exposure (weight 0.10), incident history (0.10) and information opacity (0.10). Two ports & shipping suppliers in the same country start from the number above and end up far apart. Impact — spend, substitution difficulty, continuity criticality — needs your own ledger.

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Process risk, highest first — independent of where you buy.

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Method: baseline risk is the weighted mean of country composite risk (weight 0.15) and sector risk (weight 0.15), using the same weights and the same weighted-mean form as the Tieron scoring engine restricted to those two factors. It is deterministic: the same inputs always produce the same number.
Sources — country: Tieron catalog v1 — CPI 2024 / ITUC 2025 / EPI 2024 / WGI RoL 2023. Sector: Tieron catalog v1 — 33-sector reference (v6). Country indices are published by their respective issuers; the sector reference is Tieron’s own catalog. Informational aid for supplier screening, not legal advice and not a statement about any individual company.