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7 WMU J. Maritime Aff. 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/wnujlmti7 and id is 1 raw text is: WMU JOURNAL OF MARITIME AFFAIRS, VOL. 7 (2008), NO.1, 1-3 International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection Editorial The WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs aims at promoting and disseminating research in Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection. In this vein, this volume comprises a selection of papers presented during the International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection (SSE07), held on Septem- ber 20-21, 2007, in Athens, Greece and organized by the Laboratory for Maritime Transport at the National Technical University of Athens. Papers were selected as representative of some of the key issues presented during the symposium. In the first paper, by Mullai and Larsson, the authors provide results from a study on hazardous materials incidents for the transport system in general (half of incidents) and for maritime transport in particular (18% of incidents). For the latter, the paper stresses that the FN-curves of maritime transport human risks would be below the corresponding FN-curves for aggregated supply chain human risk. The two following papers also contribute to risk identification and quantification in presenting results from EU-funded project SAFEDOR. Konovessis, Vassalos and Mer- miris focus on results for RoPax vessels and stress a significant reduction in the oc- currence of incidences over the years. The comparison of their results (1994 to 2004) with former study from the North West European Project on the Safety of Ro-Pax ships (1978 to 1994) shows a global reduction of 57% in the frequency of collision, grounding, impact and fire/explosion. Ellis, Forsman, Gehl, Langbecker, Riedel and Sames discuss the findings of the SAFE- DOR project for container vessels. Using a high-level risk model to establish the cur- rent risk profile in terms of individual, societal risk for crew members as well as risk to the environment of generic containerships, the paper stresses potential for risk reduction related to collision, grounding and fire/explosion which are respectively associated with 68%, 14%, and 16% of the total risk. Furthermore, the overall risk associated to the operation of container vessels is found to be in the ALARP area, thereby giving justification for cost effective risk control measures. Conachey, Serratella and Wang from the American Bureau of Shipping present two methodologies to assess vessel structures and machinery: Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) plans. The authors show how RBI can be used to target inspections resulting in a more optimized program and apply the methodology to critical area for fatigue sensitive location. The paper then ©World Maritime University.All rights reserved. ISSN: 1651-436X print/1654-1642 online