• Title/Summary/Keyword: Maritime Safety Technology

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Building a Fusion Information System for Safe Navigation

  • Hong, Taeho
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2014
  • The International Maritime Organization has determined that more than 80% of maritime accidents are caused by human error. A variety of methods have been considered to reduce maritime accidents caused by such human error. Navigators operate by observing surrounding maritime situations and analyzing information using various navigational devices. This study proposes a system to ensure safe navigation by assisting navigators through the delivery of maritime safety information (MSI) between land and sea. In the future, supplementing the system through long-term on-the-ship tests is necessary by defining MSI in relation to maritime service portfolio regions.

Integrated Ship Cybersecurity Management as a Part of Maritime Safety and Security System

  • Melnyk, Oleksiy;Onyshchenko, Svitlana;Pavlova, Nataliia;Kravchenko, Oleksandra;Borovyk, Svitlana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2022
  • Scientific and technological progress is also fundamental to the evolving merchant shipping industry, both in terms of the size and speed of modern ships and in the level of their technical capabilities. While the freight performance of ships is growing, the number of crew on board is steadily decreasing, as more work processes are being automated through the implementation of information technologies, including ship management systems. Although there have been repeated appeals from international maritime organizations to focus on building effective maritime security defenses against cyber attacks, the problems have remained unresolved. Owners of shipping companies do not disclose information about cyberattack attempts or incidents against them due to fear of commercial losses or consequences, such as loss of image, customer and insurance claims, and investigations by independent international organizations and government agencies. Issues of cybersecurity of control systems in the world today have gained importance, due to the fact that existing threats concern not only the security of technical means and devices, but also issues of environmental safety and safety of life at sea. The article examines the implementation of cyber risk management in the shipping industry, providing recommendations for the safe ship operation and its systems in order to improve vulnerability to external threats related to cyberattacks, and to ensure the safety and security of such a technical object as a seagoing ship.

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.

Economic Validation of Maritime Safety Center in Case of Yeong-Nam Province

  • Lim, Sangseop;Kim, Kyung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.26 no.10
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    • pp.167-172
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    • 2021
  • After the Ferry Sewol accident, public interest in marine safety has increased. However, as the marine leisure tourism population increases, the number of casualties caused by marine accidents is increasing, so marine safety education is urgently needed. Since facilities related to marine safety education in Korea are geographically biased to the west, regional imbalances in education are significant. Therefore, this study suggested solutions to the problems of developing educational contents and securing budgets and professionals by using idle facilities of the Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology(KIMFT) located in Busan as a maritime safety education center. In addition, as a result of estimating demand using the gravity model, it was estimated that the demand would range from 150,000 to 130,000 per year. This study sufficiently proved social policy validity for policy suggestions using existing idle sites as maritime safety education centers based on objective verification methods and is expected to contribute substantially to policy promotion in the future.

An Analysis of Demand and Seating Capacity for Maritime Safety Training in Accordance with the Seafarers Act Revision (선원법 개정에 따른 선원안전교육 수요분석 및 수용능력에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Seok-Han;Lee, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.671-678
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    • 2016
  • This study estimates the demands for safety training courses with reference to research on safety training records, seafarer statistics, target groups for safety training, expiry dates of existing safety courses, seafarer employment rates, the retirement age, etc. These results are compared with the seating capacity of the maritime training institute to analyze the anticipated increase in and convergence of demand can be accommodated. The average annual safety training needs for the next five years according to the Seafarers Act include approximately 10,444 people, and the proper annual seating capacity of the maritime training institute is approximately 7,280 people at present. Thus, in order to respond to an increasing demand for safety training, it is necessary to expand the capacity of the safety training facility.

Central American Region Maritime Organization and their Role in the occurrence of maritime casualties

  • Rojas Oscar Porras;Imazu Hayama;Fujisaka Takahiko
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.166-175
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    • 2006
  • Since many years ago and in spite of the existence of national regulations and international conventions ratified by the countries that are conformed the Central American Region (CAR), the seagoing maritime sector of this Region, has developed its activity without any type of safety measures. Therefore, a large number of people are known to die, disappear and suffer from serious injuries each year. These maritime casualties devastate the families affected by these events, and severely impact the local social and economic well-being. While all these accidents occurred in this Region, non government or any other official records are available recording these casualties Due to the lack of any historical written reports about maritime casualties occurred in this Region, the compilation of this type of accidents information and data was carried out directly by the researchers in the field. Also, all the information about the CAR Maritime Organization Components was too compiled by the authors from the respective National Maritimes Authorities. From the compiled information was elaborated the CAR maritime casualties data base and from the analysis of the above data base were determined the main causes of the maritime accidents occurred in the CAR. The lack of safety measures onboard and the ignorance of the presence and influence of atmospheric phenomena were among main factors that had been caused the maritime casualties in this Region. By other hand, from the analysis of the CAR maritime organization components, the existence of one level of organization very similar among them was determinate. The objective of this research was to analyze the role of the CAR maritime organization in the prevention of the occurrence of maritime casualties. The results of this study provides general understanding of the causes of this type of accidents in the CAR and basis for support in improving safety navigation system and measures so that the number of fatalities and maritime accidents may be reduced in the future.

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Establishment of KST's Mid to Long-Term Strategy for Stable Operation of Maritime Traffic Safety Assesment (진단제도 안정적 운영 및 고도화를 위한 공단의 중장기 대응전략 수립)

  • Kim, Bu-Young;Bak, Jeong-Dae
    • Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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    • s.34
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2013
  • 본 연구는 능동적이고 선제적인 진단제도의 안정적 효율적 관리를 위하여 진단제도상공단의 중장기 대응전략을 수립하고자 한다. 특히, 현재 진단제도의 운영현황, 문제점 분석을 통하여 진단제도의 개선방안을 도출하고 의견수렴을 통한 개선방안에 따른 공단 대응전략을 수립하여 국내유일의 진단제도 전문기관 역할수행 및 수익모델 발굴을 위한 로드맵으로서 활용하고자 한다.

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