ABSTRACT
Maritime ports are seen as crucial structures where an immense flow of people, goods, and capital is facilitated and often considered the backbone supporting the international trade regime. As such, ports are highly important, but at the same time vulnerable, spaces in need of security, encompassing both the sites and actors themselves and the flows that converge in them. The (in)security facing contemporary ports makes them places where there is intensified policing, in which different measures have been introduced to safeguard the maritime industry. As a result, ports are entangled in a complex web of international, national, and local legislation and regulation, impacting the practices of many port actors. This chapter unpacks the everyday realities and experiences among public and private actors securing and policing Norwegian port environments. Drawing on empirical research from the Port of Stavanger and Port of Kristiansand, the chapter is concerned with how the actors navigate within the regulatory regime.
