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The Introductory Concept of Maritime Safety Audit as a tool for Identifying Potential Hazards

  • Cho, Ik-Soon;Kim, In-Chul;Lee, Yun-Sok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.9
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    • pp.699-704
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the navigation risk is increasing significantly with growing of vessels' volume and propelling marine facilities, water bridges and port development etc. As a result, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs enacted a new law called MSA(Maritime Safety Audit) as a comprehensive maritime traffic safety management scheme in order to ensure safety improvements from the early planning stage to post managing of the development which affect the maritime traffic environment. MSA as a tool for improving maritime traffic safety is a formal safety diagnosis assessment in the existing or future ship's fairway by an independent audit institute. It examines the potential hazards of maritime traffic safety about the port development, if necessary, and is to ensure the implementation of appropriate safety measures. The primary purpose of MSA is to identify potential risk elements affecting safe navigation. This paper is aimed to introduce the backgrounds, the necessity and efficiency of MSA and also to describe some technical standards and diagnostic procedures.

Marine Incidents Management and Information Exchange Technologies in the Process of Safe Ship Operation

  • Oleksiy, Melnyk;Yana, Volianska;Oleg, Onishchenko;Svitlana, Onyshchenko;Alla, Bondar;Andrii, Golovan;Nataliia, Cheredarchuk;Iryna, Honcharuk;Tetyana, Obnyavko
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2023
  • Maritime transport is dominant in the overall volume of all international transportation. Existence and overcoming of problems, which cause pressure on shipping safety, remain actual and fully concern both maritime and inland transport. Increasing speed and cargo capacity of the ships along with the reduction of crew members lead to the automation of a growing number of work processes, which indicates the need to actively introduce appropriate measures in the security system of sea-going ships and commercial ports and to develop modern approaches to minimize negative events and incidents in the process of ship operation. Advantages in use of modern methods of monitoring the safety of ship operations, management of possible events and incidents, including investigation of accidents, first, aimed at prevention of negative occurrences and ways of prevention on this basis. Considering statistics on incidents increase, this work presents analysis of general ship accident rate, study of major accidental events growth annually, and investigation of causes of incidents, which most frequently occur in port waters and at open sea. A survey of current approaches to ensuring the safety of shipping by implementing effective tools, such as event and incident management, has been conducted.

Comparative Analysis of Maritime Safety Administrative System in the APEC Region

  • Chang, Hak-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.109-125
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    • 2002
  • This paper has dealt with the efficiency of maritime safety administrative system in the APEC region. under the hypothesis that officient maritime safety and marine environment. Many factors affect administrative structures, which generate various types of administration. The factors include social, economical and political factors. Further, the addition of historical factors to these factors makes it tougher to draw out an optimal model for maritime safety administration. In this regard, the result of this study will be within the extent of volition capable of accepting it under the existing maritime safety administration system. The result of the study to help APEC member states(economies) to compare their own system with those of other economies and finally to help to improve their maritime safety administrative structure for safer shipping.

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