Nordic Security Infrastructure: Resilient Maritime Logistics, Ports and Defense Readiness in the Northern Region in the Nordics

The Nordic Security Infrastructure (NSI) project brings together the ports of Mo i Rana (NO), Umeå (SWE), and Vaasa (FI), three strategically interconnected ports that support vital logistics flows across the Nordic region. These ports have been selected for their critical role in cross-border energy and goods transportation, regional industrial ecosystems and geopolitical relevance in light of emerging security and infrastructure resilience challenges. Representing one vital strategic infrastructure corridor from the Norwegian Sea to Finland, these harbours are largely interdependent and with shared vulnerabilities.

Together, these ports form a robust tri-national corridor essential for Nordic cooperation on resilient infrastructure. The project will assess vulnerabilities in maritime energy logistics, port operations, and digital systems that are increasingly exposed to hybrid threats such as cyberattacks, sabotage, and supply chain disruption in the designated three Nordic ports.

The scope includes physical infrastructure (e.g., bunkering of ships and shore power systems), digital technologies critical to maritime and coastal port areas, and local energy systems in and around maritime and coastal port areas. Particular attention will be given to the maritime sector’s role in ensuring resilient and secure energy supply chains, as well as the interdependence between shipping operations, port infrastructure and energy transition technologies.

Partners

Rana Utvikling (NO, project leader), Maritime CleanTech (NO), Vasek Vaasa Region Development Company - VASEK (FI), INAB (SE)