Maritime assets such as merchant and navy ships, ports, and harbors, are targets of terrorist attacks as evidenced by the USS Cole bombing. Conventional methods of securing maritime assets to prevent attacks are manually intensive and error prone. To address this shortcoming, we are developing a decision support system that shall alert security personnel to potential attacks by automatically pr...

Maritime traffic surveillance requires a very accurate and continuous analysis of the sea. This area consists of many different objects, actors and rules. Monitoring such a wide and complex area requires adapted visual tools, such as Maritime Surveillance Systems. These tools help identifying abnormal behaviours, which can lead to risky situations. We investigate the usability of visual analyti...

Abstract The International Maritime Organization’s member states are considering a range of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, including fuel oil levy fund low and zero carbon technology research development. This article evaluates whether the Organization is legally bound by United Nations Convention on Law Sea—in particular its Articles 203 278—despite organization not...

Maritime surveillance (MS) is of paramount importance for search and rescue operations, fishery monitoring, pollution control, law enforcement, migration national security policies. Since ground-based radars automatic identification system (AIS) do not always provide a comprehensive seamless coverage the entire maritime domain, use space-based sensors crucial to complement them. We reviewed tec...

ABSTRACT Indonesia has been deprived of its own true roots as a maritime country. This is the success colonial Dutch colonialists who do "devide at empera" in which eventually nation archipelago this sees sea separator and inhibitor space.The purpose novice lecturer's research to Know concept archipelagic state prove implementation policy development direction Indonesia. Is Government Homeland ...

the first international convention on maritime transportation is thebrussels’ convention of 1924. this convention was widely acceptedthroughout the world and; thus, lasted for a long time due to the widespreadsupport of the countries possessing fleet for this convention and the lack ofexistence of a legal document in terms of maritime transportation. thepassage of time together with innovations...

In 1997 a draft proposal for Marine Insurance Act was prepared as new South African statute in response to call the development of marine insurance by legal practitioners, academics, various members Maritime Law Association and other Underwriting bodies (the bill redrafted its main draftsman Adv Douglas Shaw QC). The legislation, tends adopt form structure English 1906 (6 Edw 7c 41), with minor...

The process of Near Eastern neolithization and its westward expansion from the core zone in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia has been broadly discussed in recent decades, and many models have been developed to describe the spread of early farming in terms of its timing, structure, geography and sociocultural impact. Until now, based on recent intensive investigations in northwestern and western...

This study explores the passage regimes of Kerch Strait and its adjacent maritime areas in context current arbitration proceedings between Ukraine Russian Federation. It ascertains that conflicting sovereignty claims over Crimea might lead to strait states user alike retaining their different approaches regime Strait. Thus, transit authorization-based simultaneously be applied under domestic la...

As for any other practice area related to the field of disaster law, 2020 was uncharted territory. This year-in-review article is divided into two parts. The first part will examine how COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) impacted maritime law. second review legal responses conventional disasters associated with vessel collisions and spills.1COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)The transport sector, cruise line industry, fi...