IMO对GBS的审议进展

文中介绍了国际海事组织对基于目标的船舶建造标准（GBS）的审议背景和讨论进程,探讨了GBS60审核问题、船舶建造档案以及GHS与FsA的关系等热点问题,并对其发展趋势作出了展望。     

未来国际海事公约的发展趋势与影响

国际海事公约呈现出新的发展趋势,这些新的发展趋势必将对世界海事活动产生直接的影响。文中首先介绍了目前国际海事公约的发展情况,分析了未来国际海事公约的发展趋势及其对世界各国的影响,最后提出了我国应对未来国际海事公约的几点建议。     

试论海事调查中的船员沉默权

随着海运市场的繁荣,航运事业获得了极大的发展。近年来,由于船员被拘留、甚至被刑事诉讼的案例不断涌现,国际海事界对公正对待船员问题给予了越来越多的关注。国际海事界正在探索以法律的形式给予船员以公正的待遇,其中一项就是沉默权,文中首先介绍了沉默权的历史沿革,指出中国的相关制度性设置并没有堵死沉默权的适用空间,而后通过对沉默权在我国海事调查中适用的影响性分析,以论证我国引进沉默权制度的必要,最后,提出了沉默权在海事调查中适用的相关建议。     

e-Navigation发展研究

近年来在IMO主导下,e-Navigation研究方兴未艾。文中结合世界航海技术的发展现状介绍了e-Navigation产生的背景、概念的形成、IMO等国际组织对其发展所起到作用,重点介绍了国际海事界目前在e-Navigation发展方面取得的最新成果,并结合中国海事局现状,对我国e-Navigation的发展提出了相关建议。     

国际海事安全立法十大热点

针对未来船舶向更加大型化和高技术化的发展,国际海事组织对未来航运安全的立法模式也正悄然转变。新技术、替代能源,以及增加立法的系统性、科学性、前瞻性、透明度等新动向和呼声正在推动着海事界改变目前的指令性的立法模式,让未来安全立法紧跟时代步伐向科学、风险、目标型转变。如今,处于过渡期的海事安全领域正在关注哪些新问题？对于造船、航运企业这些“脚踏实地”的实操者,新规则又将对其产生哪些新变化？本期,我刊根据工业和信息化部、交通运输部、国家发展和改革委员会共同组织,在中国船级社（CCS）召开的国际造船新公约新规范新标准第一次技术培训会议内容,归总了国际海事立法在航运安全方面的十大关注热点问题,向读者逐一介绍。     

国际海事组织（IMO）对安全水平法（SLA）的讨论进展

介绍了国际海事组织对安全水平法（SLA）的审议背景和讨论进展,基于SLA的概念、地位和作用,分析了SLA与GBS等议题之间的关系,提出了审议中存在问题,并对发展趋势做作出了展望。     

新公共管理视角下 我国海事立法工作的思考

文中在新公共管理视角下,针对我国海事立法现状,从立法理念、立法机制和信息化保障等方面进行分析,并以"提高制度建设质量"为出发点,借鉴国际海事组织提出的GBS相关理念,对如何提高海事立法工作质量提出建议。     

英国海事服务教育集群现状与启示

英国优秀的海事服务教育集群为伦敦长期保持国际航运中心地位提供了有力的人才支撑。分别对英国海事金融与保险、海事经纪与法律、海事安全与政策以及生僻海事领域等方面的海事服务教育集群进行阐述和分析,总结其具有布局全面、层次清晰、面向国际,引领未来的特点。在此基础上提出破解我国海事服务教育难题的关键举措是扩大专业布局、增设研究中心、加强留学资助、引进行业专家,以期为航运强国建设提供有益的决策支持。     

国际海事防污立法趋势及影响

介绍国际海事防污立法的现状,指出国际海事防污立法的发展趋势：目标导向化、系统化、参与多元化、全球统一化、高速动态化、着眼于预防、趋向强制性,阐明未来国际海事防污立法对IMO成员国的影响,提出我国应对未来国际海事防污立法对策：建立国际海事公约信息共享机制,加强高素质人才培养和储备,在技术领域投入更多精力,加强国际海事合作。     

海事目标型标准的新进展及未来发展

对海事目标型标准(GBS)的最新进展动态进行概括介绍和总结,并在此基础上指出了GBS未来发展的两大方向,即安全水平法和GBS应用推广。分析安全水平法发展中遇到的主要问题,如综合安全评估方法的局限性及船舶事故统计数据量不充分,进而探讨解决这些问题的措施,并给出促进安全水平法发展的建议。阐述GBS应用推广的必然趋势,并从必要性和可行性方面分析和展望GBS在规范及法定领域推广应用的步骤,得出集装箱船建造领域和新制定公约规则将成为GBS下一步应用的首要目标的结论。     

Some properties of international maritime statistics

This paper tests two fundamental hypotheses concerning international maritime statistics. The first one deals with the question of stationary of the maritime market statistics. The second hypothesis tested is the assumption that the international maritime statistical time series are not distributed according to a normal of Guassian probability law, but rather belong to the same family of distributions with distinctly different critical parameters. Through well documented statistical methods, the paper concludes that the international freight rates observed on a day to day basis are generated by a random walk process. The paper finds that the shipping industry's conventioal wisdom is essentially correct. ‘Last done’ is as good a forecast of tomorrow's freight rate as any other generated by more sophisticated forecasting methods. Furthermore, freight rates and secondhand tonnage prices fluctuate closely together. The freight rates are generated by stochastic processes fully described by the Paretian family of distributions. The critical parameters of these distribution, the characteristic exponents, are such that the risk conscious ship operator can indeed reduce his exposure to risk by securing a correct set of freight rate contracts.     

Towards an ‘inland terminal centred’ value proposition

The two main value propositions in international container transport are ‘port-to-port’ services and ‘door-to-door’ services. In port-to-port services, buyers ‘just’ purchase maritime transport from a shipping line. Door-to-door services comprise the total transport chain and include land-based transport. Carriers as well as forwarders offer these door-to-door services. In this paper we provide a qualitative assessment of an emerging third value proposition that is centred around inland terminals (ILTs). Such a value proposition consists of transport up to the ILT, and may have advantages over port-to-port services, such as better leverage of scale economies, better repositioning of empty containers and better alignment with the business model of forwarders. This paper conceptually and empirically explores such a value proposition.     

欧盟海事立法研究

文章介绍了欧盟海事立法的产生、程序、框架和主要内容，分析了欧盟海事立法对国际海事立法的影响，提出了我国应当采取的对策。     

Themes and tools of maritime transport research during 2000-2014

This study examines how maritime transport has been researched through a comprehensive review of papers published in 19 transportation journals over the period 2000–2014. Systematic investigation shows that Maritime Policy & Management plays a prominent role in publishing maritime transport research. At the same time, ‘shipping’ is a dominant research area, with ‘port management, service, performance, efficiency and competitiveness’; ‘shipping market, industry, freight rate and economic impact’; and ‘terminal studies’ as the most popular topics. Nevertheless, few efforts have investigated ‘shipping finance’; ‘shipping service’; or ‘port risk and security.’ Since 2000, the use of quantitative analysis techniques has steadily increased in maritime transport to help participants make decisions scientifically. We here present the major data analysis techniques and highlight some limitations regarding their application. Thus, we provide a better understanding of how maritime transport research has been undertaken in a quantitative manner.     

以最新国际公约引导我国海道测量服务履约能力建设

文章整理了有关SOLAS公约第V章第9条的修正案和有关国际会议决议，结合欧美海洋强国的有关情况，分析了我国履行该条公约尚存的问题，并就加强履约能力提出几点建议。     

A study of the role of seafarers in combating piracy off the coast of Nigeria

Piracy off the coast of Nigeria portends grave danger to the economic, security, and sociopolitical development of the country. It also threatens both international and regional trade as well as the stability of the West African sub-region. Despite Nigerian government’s attempts to curb piracy caused by poverty, unemployment, including corrupt and weak maritime regulatory and security institutions, attacks by pirates have continued to occur off the country’s coast. Consequent upon the adverse effects of piratical attacks on their day to day activities, seafarers can facilitate the suppression of piracy off the Nigerian coast. This paper uses statistics, provisions of international instruments and domestic legislations, the United Nations Security Council resolutions, soft laws, and opinions of researchers to examine the nature, causes, and effects of piracy on seafarers in Nigeria. The author argues that seafarers are necessary partners to curb piracy off the coast of Nigeria through enforcing maritime security conventions and other related instruments as well as testifying against pirates during trials. In conclusion, this paper contends that acts of piracy adversely affect crew members’ life, health, family, job, and finance thereby providing an overwhelming motivation for seafarers to play a role in suppressing piracy off the Nigerian coast.     

中国应对高素质船员可持续发展的对策

文章在分析国内外海员市场现状及我国海船高级船员供应能力的基础上，从航海教育的角度，结合我国航海教育与培训实践，探讨了解决高素质船员可持续发展的问题的途径，并展望了未来高等航海教育发展的方向。     

码头作业费问题的法律分析

立足我国航运竞争法的相关法律法规,从法律的角度对码头作业费问题做了实证分析,最后得出了班轮公司收取码头作业费并不违法的结论。     

A study on time constraints and task deviations at sea leading to accidents – a cultural-historical perspective

The high frequency of maritime accidents and incidents occurring at sea has been a major challenge for the maritime industry in the last decades. The majority of these accidents are attributed to seafarers’ poor performance. This, despite the fact that the international maritime domain continues to adopt and update conventions regulating maritime safety to mitigate these accidents from occurring. In this paper, utilising a qualitative research approach, we show through a socio-cultural contextual perspective that time constraints as a major influencing factor in causing task deviations at sea which leads to dangerous situations. We analyse how some of the present barriers in place to prevent accidents at sea are in effect prompt seafarers who are working under time pressure to deviate from their task. Moreover, the paper discusses the social constituents such as job insecurity and the seafarers’ viewpoint towards the ship operators’ commitment to safe ship operations are crucial in motivating seafarers’ deviating from the task at hand when faced with time pressure.