Pohlit, Claude

Security has been taken very seriously following the September 11 disaster in the USA. This paper examines the legal issues surrounding the prevention of maritime terrorism, especially IMO and American initiatives, and highlights the effects of these measures on the relationship between shipowners and charterers as well as between carrier and cargo.

Szuma, Gabriel

Piracy is one of the oldest known illegal activities, and its very existence endangers the international arena due to its lawless nature and ruthless methods. Todays' piracy, particularly prominent in Africa and Asia, has contemporary political and social implications, and is viewed as a new threat to international order. The aim of this thesis is to present piracy as both local and regional issues, and an international problem, and to observe how these two separate perspectives come together. I...

Slominski, Michael

A current topic of international debate among western geopolitical scholars concerns whether recent demonstrations of Chinese naval power represent China's adoption of an outwardly aggressive maritime strategy which might require a reactive change of approach by western nations in dealing with Southeast Asian trading interests. This paper analyzes recent developments in Chinese maritime strategy in order to determine whether the strategy is actually offensive or defensive. Drawing on a realist i...

Casias, Juan Francisco.

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): John C. McEachen. "June 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 75 -79). Also available in print.

Young, Donna Jean.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2630.

Davis, Joel D.

Thesis (M.M.A.S)--Army Command and General Staff Collge, 2006. / Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: May 21, 2008).

Sutton, William R.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis) Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2000. / Thesis advisor(s): Arquilla, John. "September 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103). Also available in print.

Baker, Samuel Eugene.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of English Language anf Literature, August, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Kucukosmanoglu, Alp

A risk assessment model (MAcRisk) have been developed to forecast the probability and the risk of maritime accidents on Bosphorus. Accident archives of Undersecretariat Maritime Affairs Search and Rescue Department, weather conditions data of Turkish State Meteorological Service and bathymetry and current maps of Office of Navigation, Hydrography and Oceanography have been used to prepare the model input and to forecast the accident probability. Accident data has been compiled according to state...

Riveiro, María José

The surveillance of large sea areas typically involves  the analysis of huge quantities of heterogeneous data.  In order to support the operator while monitoring maritime traffic, the identification of anomalous behavior or situations that might need further investigation may reduce operators' cognitive load. While it is worth acknowledging that existing mining applications support the identification of anomalies, autonomous anomaly detection systems are rarely used for maritime surveillance. An...

Berle, Øyvind

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea" - Ernest Hemingway, “The old man and the sea”. The background of this research, given the central condition that the world is completely dependent on maritime transportation systems, is to understand how these...

Wong, Yin-cheung, Eugene., 黃彥璋.

published_or_final_version / Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Smith, Darrell H.

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Silver, B. Wayne.

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Gaudio, Jan Cody.

This research provides an analysis of the current maritime security threat to the Baltic Approaches posed by Warsaw Pact military expansion. Nordic regional security is discussed in order to determine the importance of the region from both the Warsaw Pact and NATO perspective. The role of Finnish and Swedish neutrality as well as the roles of NATO and Warsaw Pact allies are examined in terms of capability, resolve and national interests. Denmark, as the geographic key to the Baltic, is discussed...

Hipkiss, Vernon Christopher.

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Sutton, William R.

Maritime irregular warfare (MIW) has been around since the dawn of sea power. While conventional naval warfare holds the premier position in naval affairs, MIW constitutes a less understood but equally important "other" tradition that merits closer attention. History demonstrates a link between the evolution of regular naval warfare and its irregular counterpart. when fully understood and correctly utilized, MIW actions have proven extremely effective at providing unconventional solutions to com...

Salcedo Franco, Julian

The research area of this thesis is an operational issue of the Venezuelan Navy. The specific area of research is the development of a Maritime Traffic Control Model that guarantees the efficient accomplishment of surveillance and protection of the territorial sea. The principal task is reducing the number of potential illegal shipments, for example drugs, toxic waste, or other outlaw activities in the Venezuelan sea. Currently, several operational activities are executed as a response against i...

Raphael, Jordan

<p> The Sunken Forest, located on Fire Island National Seashore, is a critically imperiled habitat and is one of only two known old-growth maritime holly forests in the world. Analysis of a dataset that dates back to nearly half a century has helped to identify major drivers influencing changes within the forest. These major drivers include; white-tailed deer herbivory, erosion, sea level rise, increased storm events, and canopy-gap dynamics. As of 2013, the Sunken Forest canopy is still analogu...

Mendoza Garcia, Marylena.

Maritime Safety is one of the most important issues dealt with by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). With the aim at improving maritime safety and pollution prevention, in 1994 SOLAS 1974 was amended and Chapter IX entitled "Management for the Safe Operation of Ships" was added, giving in this way existence to the International Safety Management Code. This amendment took place through the tacit acceptance procedure implemented by IMO, thus it has a mandatory character for SOLAS Contr...

Hadzagic, Melita

In maritime surveillance, multi-sensor data differ to a great extent in their temporal resolution. Additionally, due to multi-level security and information management processing, many contact reports arrive hours after observations. This makes the contact report data usually available for batch processing. The dissimilar multi-source information environment results in contact reports with heteroscedastic and correlated errors (i.e. measurement errors characterized by normal probability d...

Marais, Johannes Francois

The goal of this study is to make the unique benefits of modern nuclear technology available to a wider sphere. The basic hypothesis is that the time is ripe to re-investigate nuclear propulsion for commercial shipping. As the pressure on fossil fueL is mounting, both in terms of supply as well as pollution prevention and carbon emission control, it is imperative that nuclear power be made available for large-scale propulsion. Making a nuclear engine small enough to power a car is, however, stil...

Li, Kangying, n/a

The Ming maritime prohibition policy (1371-1568) reversed the maritime policies of the preceeding Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties. It was maintained for two centuries at considerable costs, but in 1568 was eventually abolished. There has not yet been a satisfactory analysis of this policy, which addresses the issues of why it was introduced, why it was maintained for so long, and why, eventually, it was overturned. This thesis takes a new approach to understanding these issues. Instead of focusing...

Hatch, Heather E

Archaeological research at Harbour Island, Bahamas, was designed to help explore and develop the concept of maritimity, or identity grounded in perceived (or imagined) shared traits deriving from a community’s relationship with the maritime environment. Maritimity can best be identified by using three broad and overlapping categories of Landscape, Maritime Resources and Maritime Material Culture. Historical documents and maritime cultural landscape elements establish the maritimity of Harbour Is...

Hanson, Natasha Evangeline

This anthropological, ethnographic study investigates the mobility patterns of Maritimers within Canada, with a focus on political economy. Specifically, I have analyzed the links between mobility, livelihood and identity within Miramichi, New Brunswick, as indicative of broader mobility patterns. This analysis is based on ethnographic data gathered over the course of two sessions of fieldwork in Miramichi itself, phone interviews with people who had moved away from the area, and extensive resea...

Thorsen, Jørgen Westrum

This aim of this report is to improve the EXIOBASE dataset by integrating life cycle inventories of 11 individual ship classes. The report then calculated the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of seagoing transport was calculated using Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output(EE MRIO) analysis. This work has made it possible to more accurately model the GWP of interregional seagoing transport, and to assess the impact contribution of each vessels, both for total interregional transport...

İlter, Kağan

Reissued 13 Mar 2013 to rearrange reference list and change distribution code from F to A. / Energy and maritime-history affairs have played particularly important parts in the alignment of regional and international relations in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Turkey has played a pivotal regional role in all these matters. This study examines the role of Turkey as it explores the Middle East more generally, from World War II to the present day, asking how dynamic strategic alliances and regional...

Farley, Mark C.

This thesis records the results of a data-based analysis of worldwide maritime piracy incidents against commercial merchant shipping from January 1989 to September 1993. The intent of developing this database was to create the framework that permits a rigorous statistical analysis of maritime piracy. It begins with a descriptive assessment of the scope and impact of piracy worldwide. Next, it identifies the statistically supportable regional and international trends in maritime piracy over the l...

Walker, William Bradley.

This thesis examines the continued applicability of the bastion concept as a basic assumption of the Maritime Strategy with respect to the new Soviet military doctrine. The methodology employed involves an examination of Soviet literature, naval hardware, and exercise/operating patterns to determine if there has been a shift in the Soviet emphasis upon protecting the SSBN force. The results show that even though the Soviets have made certain changes in the political aspects of their military doc...

Zapata, Augusto J.

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Pertle, William E.

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Braybreck, William L.

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Surbun, Vishal.

No abstract available. / Thesis (LL.M.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.

Hole, Lars Petter

This paper examines the accident reporting procedures in the maritime transportation sector. A parallel study, corresponding to this study, revealed a vast amount of underreporting by several western flag states. This is resulting in a poor situational awareness, making it difficult to implement sufficient measures and derive a wanted safety level. Reporting of accidents is globally regulated by IMO and made mandatory by the flag states‟ regulations. The Norwegian flag state, regulating the proc...

Hassel, Martin

Underreporting of maritime accidents is a problem not only for authorities trying to improve maritime safety through legislation, but also to risk management companies and other entities using maritime casualty statistics in risk and accident analysis. This study has collected and compared casualty data from 01.01.2005 to 31.12.2009, from IHS Fairplay and maritime authorities from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Greece and the Netherlands. Compa...

Roebber, Paul Joseph

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1983. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 126-127. / by Paul Joseph Roebber. / M.S.

Mukundan, Harish

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93). / This thesis studies the maritime sector of India, specifically using China as a basis for comparison. Chinese economic impact is studied under the two major headings: the effective use of non-living and living resources. Next, an overview of the current maritime profile of India is presented followed by a comparative discussion to understand the reasons...

Smitheringale, William Vickers

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1928. / Vita. / by William Vickers Smitheringale. / Ph.D.

Cronje, Riaan

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increasing financial pressures exerted on ship owners in recent years due to cost inflation, overtonnage and low freight rates in many sectors, have forced ship owners to increase cost savings and contain costs. That induced certain shipowners to operate substandard ships. The cost advantages in substandard ships are through failing to maintain safety equipment and procedures, employing cheap and untrained crews, repair...

Goodkin, Harrison Smith, 1945-

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Minckley, W. L., Brown, David E.

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O'Brien, John Francis.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University

Perrins, Erik

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS) Mobile Terminal (AMT) has been deployed aboard the USS Princeton (CG 59) in an experiment to test the viability of K and Ka band technology in military communication applications. Pilot tone data recorded on-board the USS Princeton (CG 59) show that most variations in the received power level result from antenna ...

Du Plooy, Inalize

The AIMS is Africa’s first comprehensive maritime strategy. Adopted in 2014, the AIMS proposes unique objectives to address the common maritime challenges faced by African States. One of these objectives is the establishment of the Combined Exclusive Maritime Zone of Africa (CEMZA). The AIMS states that CEMZA, “will grant Africa enormous crosscutting geostrategic, economic, and political, security and social benefits, as well as minimize the risks of all transnational threats including organized...

Nkomadu, Obinna Emmanuel

As a result of maritime piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, especially in the West Africa sub-region, off the coast of Nigeria the researcher started carrying out research in 2014 on the laws pertaining to piracy. In this regard Nigeria does not have the legal framework to effectively address the threat of piracy off its coast but a Bill entitled: “Piracy and Other Unlawful Acts at Sea (and Other Related Offences) Act” has been forwarded to the Nigerian National Assembly in order to criminalis...

Erik, Bergenholtz

Context. A large portion of all the transportation in the world consists of voyages over the sea. Systems such as Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) have been developed to aid in the surveillance of the maritime traffic, in order to help keeping the amount accidents and illegal activities down. In recent years a lot of time and effort has gone into automated surveillance of maritime traffic, with the purpose of finding and reporting behaviour deviating from what is considered normal. An issu...

Kerfoot, Denis Edward

For almost a century, British Columbia has exhibited a marked dependence on overseas markets to absorb a large proportion of the provincial, primary and secondary natural-resource production. The geographical location of the province, on Canada's western seaboard, and the bulky nature of many of the export commodities, makes the ocean highway a logical transportation link in the distribution of this commerce to foreign markets. The objective of this study is to trace and quantify, as precisely a...

Wilson, Jason K.

Thesis (M.S. in Engineering Acoustics)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Rice, Joseph A. ; Kapolka, Daphne ; Hursky, Paul. "September 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49). Also available in print.

Tanaka, Yoshifumi.

Graduate Inst. of International Studies, Diss.--Geneva, 2002. / Literaturangaben S. [383] - 412.

Ford, Benjamin L.

The goal of the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape project was to investigate the nature and distribution of archaeological sites along the northeast shoreline of Lake Ontario while examining the environmental, political, and cultural factors that influenced the position of these sites. The primary method of investigation was a combined archaeological and historical survey of the shoreline within seven 1-km square areas. The archaeological component of the survey covered both the terrestri...