PORT SECURITY MANAGEMENT

The marine ports are considered the most critical components of the worldwide transportation infrastructure; however, they have never been covered with a really comprehensive security oversight and governmental regulation.

The intention of this volume is to provide the industry with some introduction and also provide required support guidelines to be used for the management of the port security.

Taking into account all complexities of the homeland security strategies, the publication is aimed at those shipping industry specialists and students who are normally responsibilities or interested in provision of the security of the maritime infrastructure, including port facilities.

The volume gives some introduction to the security management, tells readers about the most serious security challenges, risk management activities, personnel and facility security issues, cargo handling operations, intelligence and access controls, safety management, emergency management, security force management and many other topics considered important enough for inclusion into this publication. There is a short glossary of terminology and a comprehensive list of useful organizational resources supplementing the main text.