MARITIME SAFETY & SECURITY (1994-2012)

Maritime safety and security were other new research areas that I became involved in while at NTUA. The two areas are not related but I grouped them here for convenience. Papers on maritime security are No. 8, 11, 13 and 14. All others are on safety.

 Below are two safety-related projects at NTUA, in which I was the PI:

·       “Safety of Shipping in Coastal Waters- SAFECO Project” (January 1996- December 1997). Commission of European Communities, Directorate General for Transport -Transport Research Programme (multi-partner project, Det Norske Veritas Leader).

·       “Safety of Shipping in Coastal Waters- SAFECO II Project” (January 1998- December 1999). Commission of European Communities, Directorate General for Transport -Transport Research Programme (multi-partner project, Det Norske Veritas Leader).

 There was also another project, named CASMET, whose PI was my NTUA colleague Piero Caridis, in which I participated.

 But most notable in the safety area has been my involvement in the IMO’s activities on Formal Safety Assessment (FSA), also connected with environmental risk evaluation criteria (see section on oil spills). In addition to the MEPC, FSA involved my going to the FSA group at IMO’s MSC (Maritime Safety Committee).

Link to IMO documents HERE.

Link to LMT page HERE.

Link to a Symposium I organized HERE. 

The list of papers is below. Most memorable of all papers was No. 15, which was rejected 4 or 5 times (in different journals!) before it was finally accepted by a good journal. It was rejected I think because it contained some controversial views, pointing out some flaws on IMO’s FSA, and quite likely because it went to the same reviewers who, as IMO insiders, did not like these views. Worth a read!

1.     Psaraftis, H.N., G. Panagakos, N. Desypris, N. Ventikos, 1998, An Analysis of Maritime Transportation Risk Factors, ISOPE-1998 Conference, Montreal, Canada, May.

2.     Psaraftis, H.N., P. Caridis, N. Desypris, G. Panagakos, N. Ventikos, 1998, The Human Element as a Factor in Marine Accidents, IMLA-10 Conference, St. Malo, France, September.

3.     Psaraftis, H.N., 2002, Maritime Safety: To Be or Not to Be Proactive, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs 1, 3-16.

4.     Raffetti, A., Venturino, C., Petersen, E. S., Psaraftis, H. N., Lyridis, D. V., and Ventikos, N. P., 2003, Integrated Navigation System – Safety Prediction Model for Ship’s Retrofit Strategy, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

5.     Lyridis D.V., Ventikos N.P., Zacharioudakis P.G., Psaraftis H.N., Volakis S., 2005, Exploring of the Risk Limits of Oil Transport in the Aegean Sea: The Current Records and Perspectives of Tanker Safety, 1^st International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics, SNAME Greek Section, Athens, May.

6.     Ventikos N.P., Psaraftis H.N., 2005, A Review on the Integration of Human Factor in Marine Safety: The Sleeping Giant under the Spotlight, Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Human Decision-Making and Manual Control (EAM 2005), Athens, Greece.

7.     Psaraftis, H.N., Maritime Safety in the Post-Prestige Era, 2006, Marine Technology, Vol. 43, No. 2,  85–90.

8.  Tsilingiris, P., H.N. Psaraftis, and D. Lyridis, D., 2007, RFID-Enabled Innovative Solutions   Promote Container Security, International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and      Environmental Protection (SSE07), Athens, Greece, September 2007.
9.  Kontovas, C. A., H.N. Psaraftis, and P. Zachariadis, 2007, The Two C’s of the Risk Based Approach to Goal-Based Standards: Challenges and Caveats, International Symposium on Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection (SSE07), Athens, Greece, September.

10.  Kontovas, C. A., H.N. Psaraftis, and P. Zachariadis, 2007, Improvements in FSA Necessary for Risk-Based GBS, PRADS 2007 Conference, Houston, USA, October.

11.  Gkonis, K.G., H.N. Psaraftis, and N.P. Ventikos, 2009, Game Theory contributions to Terrorism in Merchant Shipping: an Application to Port Security, IAME 2009 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24-26.

12.  Kontovas, C.A., H.N. Psaraftis, 2009, Formal Safety Assessment: A Critical Review, Marine Technology, Vol. 46, No. 1,  45–59.

13.  Gkonis, K.G., H.N.Psaraftis, and N.P.Ventikos, 2010, Modelling Security Aspects of Merchant Shipping: a Piracy setting, IAME 2010 Conference Proceedings, July 7-9, Lisbon, Portugal 

14.  Gkonis, K.G. and H.N. Psaraftis, 2010, Container transportation as an Interdependent Security problem, Journal of Transportation Security, 3:197-211.

15. Psaraftis, H.N., 2012, Formal Safety Assessment: an Updated Review, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 17, 390–402.