Assessing Maritime Security, Information And Communications Technology Application

Assessing Maritime Security, Information And Communications Technology Application

Abstract

This study was intended to estimate the maritime security, information and communication technology. The study employed the descriptive and explicatory design; questionnaires in addition to library exploration were applied in order to collect data. Primary and secondary data sources were used and data was anatomized using the correlation statistical tool at 5 position of significance which was presented in frequence tables and chance. The repliers under the study were 68 workers of the Rivers harborage.

The study findings revealed that maritime security, information and communication technology can be assessed; grounded on the findings from the study, sweats should be made by the Nigerian government and stakeholders in farther promoting maritime security in Nigeria, as this would encourage further investors.

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

Worldwide Port and Maritime operations and their associated installations and structure inclusively represent one of the single topmost unaddressed challenges to the security of nations and the global frugality moment. The reason that anchorages and shipping exertion are so delicate to secure falsehoods primarily in their technology. Anchorages are generally large, asymmetrical conditioning dispersed over hundreds of acres of land and water so that they can contemporaneously accommodate boat, truck and rail business, petroleum product/ liquid discharge, storehouse or pipeline, and vessel storehouse. The movement of freight, weight( solid or liquid), and transport through a harborage is generally on a “ queuing ” system, meaning that any detention tailbacks all operations. Whether or not detainments are related to security, security generally falls by the wayside in the interest of time operation or convenience. Encyclopedically, there are veritably many invariant norms for point- to- point control of security on holders, loadings, vessels or crews – a harborage’s security in one nation remains veritably much at the mercy of a harborage’s security, or warrant thereof, in another nation. Organized crime is rooted in numerous anchorages and a large maturity of them still don’t bear background checks on wharf workers, crane drivers or storehouse workers. utmost anchorages lease large portions of their installation to private terminal operating companies, who are responsible for their own security. The result of this is a “ disunited ”, uneven system of harborage security and operations operation as a whole.

Statement of the problem

Maritime security is, indeed, a double bind( Uadiale and Yonmo, 2010a). The decomposition of central government authority, the lack of maritime security has, thus, come a grave problem. The Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Guinea are therefore symbols of “ the many cases in Africa where security onland have revealed over and affected maritime security oppressively ”. The lack of maritime security in the region and the fact that it wasn’t possible to apply the law and maintain good order at ocean, hovered maritime communication, maritime sovereignty and stimulated pirating. While important of the instabilitymid-wifed, pirating of the Somalia seacoast stems from the collapse of governance, and law and order in Somalia, in the Gulf of Guinea, the situation is kindly different. Maritime pirating in the Gulf of Guinea is more directly politically driven. In Nigeria, politics onland directly affect in coastal conduct, causing the mecca of instability onland in the Niger Delta region to slip into the Gulf of Guinea to promote bad order at ocean. According to the maritime watchdog – the International Maritime Bureau( IMB), the waters of Nigeria are now the alternate most dangerous in the world, coming toSomalia.The proliferation of pirating in the West African region has been of concern amongst government and the oil painting assiduity since 1999. With militant groups turning rovers in the Niger Delta, claiming that they’re sabotaging the oil painting assiduity for political purposes in kick of the mismanagement of Nigeria’s oil painting wealth. still, these political grievances are decreasingly taking on a felonious nature( Uadiale and Yonmo, 2010a).

Significance of the study

Information Communication Technology( ICT) refers to several forms of information exchange between two or further bias like computers, mobile PDAs and hi- tech bias through which any of the several styles of connection, basically through the Internet can be initiated to perform a defined task. These technologies give speedy, affordable, secure and accessible means of communication.

thus, in developing countries Nigeria precisely, the impact of ICT in the maritime sector for maritime operations and security can not be overemphasized.It’s as a result of this that this exploration study is determined to assess the impact of ICT on security of Maritime operations.

Objects Of The Study

1. To mokes maritime security, information and dispatches technology.

exploration questions

1. How can maritime security, information and dispatches technology be assessed?

Exploration Suppositions

Ho Maritime security, information and dispatches technology can not be assessed.

Hi Maritime security, information and dispatches technology can be assessed.

Limitations of the study

1. Financial constraint-inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

2. Time constraint- The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

Compass Of The Study

The study focuses on assessing maritime security, information and dispatches technology with gutters harborage as a case study.

description of terms

Maritime This is connected with the ocean, especially in relation to seaborne trade or nonmilitary matters.

Security This refers to protection of a person, structure, association, or country against pitfalls.

Information and Communications Technology This refers to an marquee term that includes any communication device or operation, encompassing radio, TV, cellular phones, computer and network tackle and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the colorful services and operations