Title: International ship and port facility security and port facility security assessment (ISPS code).
Abstract: A new regime of security for international the maritime transport will take effect as of July 2004 following its adoption by the Diplomatic Conference developed in the month of December 2002, when the International Maritime Organization (IMO) established a series of measures destined to strengthen the maritime protection of ship and port facilities and to prevent and suppress acts of terrorism against the activity of the maritime transport. The 1st July 2004 is therefore the deadline for all port terminals with international traffics to implement a protection plan. These measures are added to other programs that already in place, such as the American CSI and C-PAT Programmes. The Conference adopted several amendments to the SOLAS 1974 Agreement to cover port and the most important result was adoption of the International Ship and Port facility Security (ISPS) Code1. The new dispositions include the modification of chapter XI, that now is divided in two parts. The first part defines the changes in the SOLAS Convention2, whereas the second one anticipates the mandatory nature
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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