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Safety and security has been an increasing concern in container shipping over the past few decades. In this paper, three major risk categories, namely, risks associated with information flow, risks associated with physical flow, and risks associated with payment flow are categorised and analysed. The paper uses Taiwan as a case study aiming to provide some insight into the management of safety and security in a wider maritime contest.

Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are employed in this paper. An interview survey is undertaken to explore and identify the risk factors in container shipping, and a questionnaire survey is then conducted to collect the relevant data. In order to conduct a comprehensive risk analysis, risk scale is calculated to rank the risk factors using the mean value method and the stochastic dominance method; and risk map is used as the main analytical method to identify the level …