Proposed safety schemes for the protection of marine activities against unlawful events

摘要

This paper highlights threatening acts and accidents to shipping transportation activities. Security measures adopted by IMO, as proposed in recent SOLAS meetings, to safeguard international maritime shipping and ports against terrorist action may not be enough to protect those activities. The aim of the present work is to propose safety arrangements and put forward an alerting system scheme to safeguard marine interests. It will be appreciated by all who are concerned with maritime industrial sectors that, in global term, protective measures must be taken. Also, it must be specified by international conventions to cover all respective and perspective problems leading to the immunity and the neutralisation of threats to marine practices and activities. The author concludes that the proposed alerting system scheme, if it were properly adopted globally, would therefore lead to safeguard marine activities, worldwide, against unforeseeable events and abnormal evil acts. Also, the author draws attention to one of those events that represents a vital issue regarding the large drastic impact effects on a nation's economy. This is the problem of marine pollution and its hazardous effects. It is now visualised and recognised that any incidents causing major pollution, will not only present a major drawback to the economical situation of the nation(s) affected but, if uncontrolled, may also lead to destruction of maritime activities all over the world. Therefore, in global terms, an international programme of co-operation must be enhanced to combat the new problem of those whose aim is to cause deliberate pollution, and of the unexpected effects on the marine environment resulting from their actions. Measures and international contingency plans against this enemy must be specified and implied at once.