New Indices of Risk Assessment for Security in Port Infrastructures | |
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( Volume 1 Issue 5,November 2015 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
David Romero-Faz, Alberto Camarero-Orive | |
Abstract: | |
The risk assessment in infrastructures is present in the daily policy of the different countries all over the world. From the 11th September and the bombings in Madrid and London, the most countries began to consider the international terrorist threat like a real one. Regarding to the port facilities security, in 2003 the International Maritime Organization designed its own methodology to assess the impact of an attack to any port infrastructure. From that moment the different countries implemented in few years this methodology and some countries their own one to assess the risk of an attack to their ports infrastructures. Despite this and may be because of most countries implemented their Protection Plans in their ports very quickly as the result of the risk assessment, there are some aspects which are not really well studied nowadays. After more than ten years with the Protection Plans implemented in the Spanish Port System now there are good statistics of threats to be considered to review the existing methodologies. With the target of improving the knowledge of the real risks and also the scope of the risk assessment in ports, a revision of the main methodologies was taken together with a survey to the Port Security Officers and the analysis of the threats statistics. As the result of the investigation several new indices were defined for risk assessment. Indices like intrinsic risk of the port, intrinsic risk of the type of terminal, the redefinition of accessibility, the layout of the terminal or the operative relevancy that some elements have for port operation. |
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