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Navigation Safety Analysis in Taiwanese Ports

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2006

Chung-Ping Liu ,
Gin-Shuh Liang ,
Yuhling Su  and
Ching-Wu Chu
Chung-Ping Liu
Affiliation:
Yu Da College of Business
Gin-Shuh Liang
Affiliation:
National Taiwan Ocean University. Email: gsliang@mail.ntou.edu.tw
Yuhling Su
Affiliation:
National Taiwan Ocean University. Email: gsliang@mail.ntou.edu.tw
Ching-Wu Chu
Affiliation:
National Taiwan Ocean University. Email: gsliang@mail.ntou.edu.tw
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Abstract

Many researchers have studied vessel systems to enhance navigation safety at sea, or analysed the statistics of marine casualties of different flagged vessels as well as the fatalities and injuries in ferry accidents. However, little research has been devoted to port safety and especially navigation safety within Taiwanese territorial waters where over a 10-year period there have been 3428 marine accidents with 548 deaths and 524 vessels sunk. In this paper, we use the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to analyse the marine accident records of each of Taiwan's commercial ports from 1992–2003. Then, after interviewing the port authority managers and marine specialists, we discover the concerns felt by these professionals about Taiwanese commercial ports. We provide suggestions to strengthen port navigation safety.

Keywords

Marine NavigationSafety of NavigationPort Safety
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 201 - 211
Copyright
2006 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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