Throughout the world, busy waterways near large ports witness heavy vessel traffic in recent
decades. The waterways are characterized by high risk in terms of loss of life, property, and …

This paper investigates port traffic risk issues by discussing historic accidents in Hong Kong
port. A total of 2012 marine accidents with 94 deaths were reported in Hong Kong waters in …

Hong Kong's port is one of the busiest in the world. Such heavy traffic is associated with a
high accident rate. The present study uses Bayesian Networks to analyze accident risk in …

Regional risk analysis and management of maritime accidents is one of the fundamental
tasks for maritime safety management. With the heavy and complicated maritime traffic in the …

With the rapid development of the maritime industry, maritime traffic safety management in
China is under great pressure. Recently, it is obvious from the safety management on aft …

The safe navigation of ships is of high societal concern. A promising approach for analyzing
waterway risks is using non-accident critical events as surrogate indicators of collision …

Collision between ships is one of the dominant types of accident in the approaches to
Tianjin port, which accounts for 65% of all types of accidents. This paper presents a …

There are many factors affecting navigational safety in ports, including weather, the
characteristics of the channels and vessel types, etc. This paper aims to identify the factors …

The maritime risk assessment is important not only to evaluate the safety level of the ports
and waterways but also to reduce potential maritime accidents at sea in terms of the …

The evaluation of maritime waterway risk is required to take further advance measure for
reduction of ship collision accident. In general, a risk assessment of ship collision can be …