European Journal of Maritime Research

Basic Study for Grasping the Human Gaze Movement of a Remoting-Ship Operator

2024-05-18T17:39:50-04:00

Our research focuses on understanding the disparity in risk perception when operating maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) between onboard and through screens. In our initial step, we conducted experiments using a ship simulator, involving 4 students aspiring to be navigators. They navigated through screens and participated in debriefing sessions. Human gaze movement was utilized to ascertain the ability to comprehend navigational risks solely through observation. Simultaneously, salivary alpha-amylase samples were taken to verify their accurate risk cognition. The key finding indicates that human gaze movement aids in precisely understanding navigational risks, suggesting the feasibility of future ship operations through screens. Our research targets navigators crucial in global logistics, aiming to enhance safety in remote ship operations by demonstrating that risk cognition is achievable through human gaze movement. This breakthrough is vital for the evolving realm of MASS operations.

Cruise Port Market Positioning: Making the Case for Including Societal and Environmental Risk Mitigation Strategies

2023-12-02T06:43:12-05:00

Port Authorities (PAs) are now paying growing attention to the social and environmental risks stemming from their cruise activities. Several of these ports are engaged in a structured and for some already long-standing, approach to reducing the negative externalities of cruise ship calls. However, the content analysis of 36 Port Authorities’ websites showed that very few of them report on such action plans. Based on the review of the literature dealing with PAs’ market positioning approaches, the purpose of this paper is to promote the opportunity and feasibility for PAs to disseminate information about their past, ongoing, and/or future actions supporting sustainable cruise tourism.

Identifying Maritime Ports’ Investment Drivers: The Case of French Local and Regional Ports

2023-01-02T05:04:08-05:00

Ports play an essential role in the production and distribution processes of companies, as well as in the organizations set up by logistics and transportation service providers. But ports are also likely to have to contribute to the development of the territories they are part of. This paper aims at knowing more about how this double challenge impacts the investments made by local and regional ports. To this end, seventeen individual websites and three collective websites of French ports have been surveyed. Results show that the sampled ports and groups of ports have for the most part properly adjusted both to the constraints posed by the public authorities and to the needs and expectations of their current and potential customers.

Evaluation of the Relationship between Maritime Piracy and Port Revenue

2022-12-04T07:25:53-05:00

The study investigated the relationship between maritime piracy and sea robbery on revenue generated in the Nigerian ports between 1995 and 2013. The study used secondary data sourced from the Nigerian ports authority, and the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on the port revenue, levels of pirate attacks against ships in local; and global waters, level of cargo pilferages in ports and used for the study. It used multiple regression analysis method to analyze the dataset obtained using port revenue as the dependent variable while global attacks, local attacks and volume of cargo pilfered were used as independent variables. It was found that there is significant relationship between port revenue generated in the Nigerian ports and level of maritime piracy and sea robbery against ships in Nigeria waters. The result indicates that for every unit increase in pirate attacks against ships trading in global waters, revenue generated in the Nigerian ports increased by 60872.47 units. Similarly, for each unit increase in local attacks against ships in Nigerian waters, the revenue generated in the ports increased by 548297.8 units and for a unit increase in level of insecurity induced cargo pilferage in the seaports, port revenue decreases by 562,96 units. It was also found that this is a significant relationship between revenue generated in the ports and maritime piracy and sea robbery against ships in the maritime industry.

Assessment of the Influence of Maritime Piracy and Sea Robbery on Cargo throughput Performance of Nigerian Ports

2022-12-02T12:33:21-05:00

The study assessed the impact of maritime piracy and sea robbery on the cargo throughput performance of Nigeria ports. The central objective of the study was to determine the significances of the influences of levels of attacks against ships trading in global cum local waters and maritime insecurity induced cargo pilferage levels on the cargo throughput performance of Nigeria ports. The study used secondary data sourced from the Nigerian ports authority, and the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on the cargo throughput, levels of pirate attacks against ships in local; and global waters, level of cargo pilferages in ports and used for the study. The multiple regression analysis method was used to analyze the dataset obtained using cargo throughput performance of the ports as the dependent variable while global attacks, local attacks and volume of cargo pilfered were used as independent variables. the model showing the effects of maritime piracy and sea robbery attacks on the cargo throughput performance of the Nigerian ports is: CARGO_t= 0.729700 +0.0140GLOTAKS_t – 0.0921LOTAKS_t –0.0003VOCARP_t ….. (2). It indicates that a unit increase in attacks in global waters increases the cargo throughput in Nigerian ports by 0.0140 units while a unit increase in local attacks by pirates within the Nigerian territorial waters causes cargo throughput performance of Nigerian ports to decrease by 0.0921 units. Similarly, a unit increase in cargo pilferage associated with maritime insecurity in Nigeria ports causes the cargo throughput performance of the ports to decrease by 0.0003 units. It is also found that that there is a significant impact of the level of maritime piracy/sea robbery on the cargo throughput performance of the Nigerian seaports.