博士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 94 / Being an island country, the economy in Taiwan highly depends on marine transportation. Avoiding the occurrence of marine accidents is an important issue for stabilizing our economy system. Marine accidents usually bring casualties in the navigation, and consequently danger human life and property, contaminate the ocean environment, and encumber the operations of ports.
Since 1997, the International Maritime Organization has advocated investigating and analyzing marine accidents in order to find the cause-effect relationship for benefiting authorities in making marine policies and regulations for navigation safety and ocean environment protection. Many researchers have studied on issues of marine casualties in different flags, seamen fatalities, and ferries safety. However, little research has been devoted to the port security, especially the field of navigation safety within a country’s territorial waters. Past records showed that marine incidents have occurred mostly on and near the territorial waters of ports. Hence, the navigation safety analysis of territorial waters of ports is essential to reduce marine casualties.
Due to the incomplete information of marine affairs in Taiwan for classification, we know that the Gray Clustering Method is an ideal way not only in dealing with incomplete information and uncertain causality but also providing good results. So we take the Gray Theory Method for our methodology in studying on the safety analysis and accident classification for waters of international commercial harbors in Taiwan.
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the present navigation safety in Taiwanese territorial waters and make suggestions to strengthen the navigation safety of ports. In this paper, we analyze the marine incident records of each Taiwan’s commercial port from 1992 to 2003, and identify six indicators that can reveal the safety of waters by literature review and interviews. The Grey Relationship Analysis methodology is also applied to rank the navigation safety orders of each commercial port; we find that the navigation safety of Port Hualien and Port Taichung are better than that of Port Keelung and Port Kaohsiung. Finally, through thoroughly reviewing incident reports and interviewing with the managers of port authorities and marine specialists, we reveal some apprehensions encountered by Taiwan’s commercial ports, and provide some suggestions to strengthen the navigation safety of ports.
“Marine accident” belongs to risks which cannot be prevented in advance. In order to reduce marine accidents, we should provide a quality database of marine accident in each harbor for reference. Establishing the principles to classify marine accidents plays an important role before constructing the quality database of marine accidents.
During the process of research, we have discussed with the manager of harbor bureaus, experts of maritime arbitration, and the manager of salvage organizations, and have surveyed present marine accident classification in the world in order to construct appropriate indices for classification. After analysing 107 data of marine accidents, we classify the accidents into four types－ ‘especially important accident’, ‘important accident’, ‘ordinary accident’, and ‘minor accident’－ by the Gray Clustering Method. And we found that the crew’s negligence accounts for 93.5﹪for the cause of all accidents. Furthermore, 85.1﹪of crew’s negligence is caused by senior crew. Based on above findings, some suggestions are provided. It is obvious that the results of this study can strengthen the seaman ability to deal with an emergency accident. The Grey Clustering Method proposed in this study is also helpful for organizations, such as the admiralty court and the salvage organization, in optimizing how many resources they should invest in.
In conclusion, we conclude accident causes by analyzing marine accident data, construct the relation analyzing model for safety assessment in port waters, and frame the marine accident classification system. This research not only assists the integrated management for safety at sea in Taiwan and safety management in particular harbors, but contributes to minimize marine accidents involved economic losses within waters of ports.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/094NTOU5301014 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Chung-Ping Liu, 劉中平 |
| Contributors | Gin-Shuh Liang, Ching-Wu Chu, 梁金樹, 朱經武 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 138 |
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