Impact of the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry

This paper evaluates the impact of risk factors from the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry by employing a risk management matrix to identify the severity and frequency of CSI risk factors, and discovers some appropriate risk management alternatives. This paper's findings are as follows: (1) The majority of risk factors have a moderate-risk level, and possible alternative risk management measures include risk prevention, self-retention and insurance. (2) Ensuring a balance between the efficiency of maritime logistics and supply chain security is of vital importance to any trading countries dealing with security risk issues. (3) The government should encourage the private sector to design and market security hardware and software, which will promote the growth of the domestic security industry and generate employment opportunities.     

Piracy off West Africa from 2010 to 2014: an analysis

Piracy is one of the most frequent maritime threats. However, despite the importance of how maritime piracy is to be reduced, it is substantially less investigated than maritime safety. Piracy off Somalia is the most investigated case of piracy, but those results are not necessarily generalizable. Piracy off West Africa has been shown to be more diverse, successful and dangerous. This study investigates and analyses piracy off West Africa with the aim to understand how different operations and security measures affect the consequences of piracy. This study has identified several different intents and shows that most attacks are relatively close to shore and correspond to areas of high ship density. Attacks with the intent of theft at night-time are generally performed close to shore, and more complicated attacks against ships under way are more common during daytime and farther from shore. Five types of measures are found to have high effectiveness if the attack is detected during approach; after boarding, only two measures have high effectiveness. Of the effective measures, it can be concluded that all but one are dependent on detecting the attack. Therefore, detecting the pirates is key but must be accompanied by a set of measures because no measure alone can protect a ship given the operational conditions off West Africa. The risks associated with piracy off West Africa are estimated to be of the same magnitude as the risks posed by Somali piracy at its peak.     

加强军队信息网络安全措施探讨

随着我军信息化建设步伐的不断加快,信息网络技术在部队的应用日趋广泛。这些先进的技术在倍增战斗力的同时,也带来了不可忽视的信息系统安全问题。本文就如何加强军队信息网络安全、开展有效防护工作进行了探讨。     

Rhetoric,rationality and reality in post-9/11 maritime security

The post-9/11 maritime security scenario was characterized by intense rhetoric in the first few years, during which security measures such as the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) code were adopted. This rhetoric resulted in a hasty implementation that precluded a detailed examination of security measures. Findings show that while rhetoric was useful for facilitating quicker adoption of security measures, it nonetheless prevented a fuller examination of security threats and responses, resulting in security gaps. This paper examines the effectiveness of the security responses and identifies some gaps in security coverage and other inefficiencies. Recommendations are also made to overcome these limitations.     

Effective maritime security: conceptual model and empirical evidence

In recent years, the issue of maritime security has become a major concern on the international maritime agenda. One of the issues in this respect is how to enhance security while not jeopardizing organizational efficiency and effectiveness, or to manage security effectively, e.g. facilitating the smooth flows of materials while enhancing supply chain security at the same time. In addressing this issue, we place three cornerstones for the effective management of security in maritime transport: quality management (QM), risk management (RM) and business continuity management (BCM). A conceptual model of effective maritime security, including 13 dimensions and 24 associated critical success factors, is devised following this reasoning. The model was tested through a survey of 119 maritime transport organizations and 25 interviews conducted in Vietnam. Findings support that all proposed 24 factors are valid and should be used as critical factors for success in effectively managing security in maritime transport, in that those involving security incident handling and response are rated as the most important in magnitude, along with security risk assessment, risk-based security mitigation strategies and plans, and senior management commitment and leadership. Managers can use the model designed and tested in this research to develop a checklist of essential components for their company's security management policies, strategies and plans. The use of a universal checklist to evaluate maritime security management would also greatly facilitate benchmarking across organizations in the industry.     

颗珠山山体控制爆破技术方案

东海大桥跨越颗珠山岛,山体爆破技术方案必须保证大桥安全。文章介绍了颗珠山山体爆破的预裂爆破参数、爆破控制参数、减小振动与防止飞石的技术措施、安全分析与监测方案等,成功实施了山体控制爆破。     

Private maritime security company (PMSC) in the Strait of Malacca

Recently, maritime security issues in the Strait of Malacca have been in the limelight. Statistics highlighting the risk of piracy faced by shipping in the Strait of Malacca and the possibility of a terrorist attack have led to an enhanced awareness of the need for heightened security. The declaration by Lloyd’s Joint War Committee (JWC) of the Strait as a “war risk area” has strengthened the perception that the littoral states have not done enough to make the Strait secure for international trade.     

Analyzing aviation safety: Problems,challenges, opportunities

This paper reviews the economic literature relating to aviation safety; analyzes the safety record of commercial passenger aviation in the United States and abroad; examines aviation security as a growing dimension of aviation safety; and identifies emerging issues in airline safety and challenges for aviation safety research. Commercial airline safety has improved dramatically since the industry's birth over a century ago. Fatal accident rates for large scheduled jet airlines have fallen to the level where (along many dimensions) aviation is now the safest mode of commercial transportation. However, safety performance has not been evenly distributed across all segments of commercial aviation, nor among all countries and regions of the world. The finding that developing countries have much poorer safety records has been a persistent conclusion in aviation safety research and continues to be the case. Unfortunately, operations data are not available for many of the airlines that experience fatal accidents, so it is not possible to calculate reliable fatality rates for many segments of the worldwide aviation industry. Without more complete information, it will likely be difficult to make substantial improvements in the safety of these operations. Challenges to improving aviation security include: how much to focus on identifying the terrorists as opposed to identifying the tools they might use; determining how to respond to terrorist threats; and determining the public versus private roles in providing aviation security. The next generation of safety challenges now require development and understanding of new forms of data to improve safety in other segments of commercial aviation, and moving from a reactive, incident-based approach toward a more proactive, predictive and systems-based approach.     

论船舶安全与船舶保安的关系

探讨了船舶安全威胁、船舶保安威胁的种类，以及船舶安全与船舶保安的关系。船舶安全管理经验对实施船舶保安具有积极的作用；船舶保安措施的落实，对提高船舶安全管理水平具有深远的影响。     

加入WTO对我国海运服务贸易的影响

我国加入WTO不仅给我们带来了严峻的挑战，也为我们提供了新的发展机遇。我国在进一步开放海运服务贸易市场的同时，必须采取适当的措施保护我国航运企业免遭毁灭性打击，促进我国海运服务贸易业的繁荣与发展。     

e-Maritime: A framework for knowledge exchange and development of innovative marine information services

The waterborne sectors in Europe employ more than 3 million people and generate a turnover representing more than 2% of the EU’s GDP. In order to maintain its leadership and competitiveness, Europe must take advantage of new market opportunities and address these challenges by means of focused research, development and innovation. In recent years, advances in information and communication technologies and growth of Earth surveillance capacity have created demand for new forms of maritime information that are increasingly driven by policy and governance addressing safety, security and sustainability. This is reflected in emergence of the IMO e-Navigation strategy and the more embracing European e-Maritime framework as the new themes governing marine information products and services. Such services require innovative integration of knowledge and skills spanning a range of sciences, technologies and information communication fields as well as co-operation across the specialist communities involved. This poses a challenge, namely; how to engage the marine and maritime stakeholder communities and how to enable the interaction needed to create the new high value market products and services. This paper explores the various issues involved and concludes how e-Maritime might offer itself as the enabling framework.     

自航船模直流电机遥控遥测系统研究

自航船模直流电机遥控遥测系统是一种新型的船模试验测试装置,由硬件和软件两部分组成。可根据船模试验的需求和特点,进行合理配置和软件开发,而且该系统还采取了抗电磁干扰和紧急停机等措施,可确保测试信号的可靠性以及安全性。通过对一艘4000TEU集装箱船自航船模的直流电机进行测控试验,结果表明,该系统测检精度高、性能稳定,安全可靠,具有较高的推广应用价值。     

浅析《2001年国际燃油污染损害民事责任公约》

介绍即将生效的《2001年国际燃油污染损害民事责任公约》的制定背景,分析燃油、污染损害、连带责任、强制保险或经济担保、证书、公约的效力等概念的界定及其要点,提出我国航运企业应熟知公约内容,密切关注船旗国接受该公约情况的动态,尽可能全面地掌握相关要求,提前取得公约要求的证书和做好必要准备。     

透过香港看中国的游艇市场

——IBI作为一家国际知名的船艇信息调查机构对中国的游艇市场当然不会漠视。该机构最近发表文章，专门介绍中国游艇市场的现状。充分看到了正在兴起的船艇及其设备制造厂商，客观分析了市场消费潜力以及制约游艇业发展的种种障碍，同时也预测了中国游艇市场未来的发展方向及重点，为业内外人士从宏观角度把握中国游艇市场的走向提供了重要的可靠依据。[编者按]     

CBR／AHP系统案例库优化电子海图解决航行安全问题

针对船舶海上事故增长趋势分析，运用CBR／AHP系统案例库检索过程使电子海图有效完善，改善船舶海上航行安全，给航海和交通管理带来更多精确信息。     

海盗防范经验探索

作为一种古老的犯罪行为,海盗曾经在相当长的时间里淡出了人们的视线。但是,20世纪90年代以来,伴随着东南亚海盗事件的上升,全球海盗事件开始急剧增加,仅登记在案的全球海盗犯罪事件就由之前的每年几起、几十起猛增到每年几百起。日益猖獗的海盗攻击事件不仅给人们的生命和财产安全带来了极大的威胁,还危及到国际海洋运输和贸易的安全与秩序。此外,装载有毒有害物质的船只如果受到海盗的攻击还可能造成海洋或邻近海岸环境生态的严重污染。因此,发现海盗行为特点,找出海盗日益猖獗原因,了解国际社会态度,采取有效措施已成为一项刻不容缓的历史重任。     

亲水景观堤岸设计

亲水景观堤岸设计与一般护岸设计存在着一定的差异,要求防浪设施不仅要具有保护陆域不被侵袭的安全功能,而且要与周边自然景观、当地文化融为一体,充分体现堤岸的亲水性.以大连港东部地区搬迁改造项目护岸、填海工程及亲水岸坝设计为例,论述了亲水景观堤岸设计中的总体布局、断面结构选择、堤顶高程确定等问题,这些都是设计成败的关键.     

船舶保安意识与职责的教学研究

在分析《1978年海员培训、发证和值班标准国际公约》马尼拉修正案、《1974年海上人命安全公约》及国内法规的基础上,提出航运院校船舶保安意识与职责的教学内容、教学方法及对教员的要求,意在通过教学实践,了解掌握海船船员保安职责和加强海上保安的特别措施。     

洋山港爆破工程与地基处理项目安全风险评价模型

进行爆破工程和地基处理的施工中,人、物和环境等因素均可能在施工过程中诱发安全事故。在洋山港工程实践中,为了从根本上减少安全事故的发生,减少事故造成的损失,从整个系统综合管理的角度考虑,建立一套能对安全事故诱因进行监测、诊断的安全风险评价模型,从而为政府和企业采取相应的预防控制措施规避爆破工程和地基处理中的风险提供技术支持。     

浅谈建筑施工现场的安全管理

随着建筑业的蓬勃发展以及《安全生产法》和《建筑工程安全生产管理条例》的颁布实施,施工现场的安全管理面临着前所未有的机遇和挑战。做好安全管理工作,具有重大的意义。如何做好施工现场的安全管理工作呢?笔者以为要从开工前的准备工作、开工后的基础工作和项目安全文化建设几方面来着手。具体包括建立完善的安全管理组织机构、建立健全安全岗位责任制、制订安全生产目标、编制安全施工组织设计、做好安全教育工作、检查工作、考核工作和隐患整改工作。同时,也要加强项目部的安全文化建设,通过形成定期的安全活动、充分利用施工现场“两栏一报”,建立“安全违章曝光台”,加深安全意识,营造浓厚的安全生产氛围。