The Application Of Information Systems In The Prevention Of Pollution In The Maritime Industry

The Application Of Information Systems In The Prevention Of Pollution In The Maritime Industry

Chapter One

Preface

· Background of the Study

Countries with small populations and advanced situations of development may manage with globalization more, but they can not go to conclude out of the mainstream forces that are shaping the world. There is, still, no mistrustfulness that profitable and socio- political discontent leads to empirical disgruntlement for populations who feel that they’re marginalized either as individualities in their own societies or as nations unfit to manage with the profitable heads( Saighal, 2003). ICT is leading the current stage of globalization, which is pacing further with fragmentation of the social state, and public governance, with wider consequences for public, indigenous and transnational security matters. Hence, the rejuvenescence of the miracle of maritime pirating in contemporary Africa, the consequence of which negatively impacts on the mainland’s rubrics, fabrics and ramifications of security profitable, social, political, marketable, energy, environmental, philanthropic , investments, experimental, profit, etc, is the stepchild of both original and global explanations, and confines which calls for critical attention.

The development and operation of threat assessment and operation ways to maritime security must take into account the complex nonsupervisory and functional environment in which the maritime assiduity operates. The purpose then’s not to propose new security- threat assessment models, but rather to point out some of the scarcities of the living bones in the broader perspective of the force chain approach to maritime security. More specifically, the paper introduces an original security threat assessment and operation frame able of reflecting the logistics compass of transport networks. The focus is to shift the subject of maritime security from the current docket of installation- security to an extended frame of force chain security. The document also reviews being approaches to measuring transport security compliance costs and backing schemes espoused by assiduity and governments in order to finance the costs of security regulations. While championing the relinquishment of any particular security measure isn’t within the compass of this analysis, the paper nonetheless not only argues that the new transnational security nonsupervisory frame is a challenge, but also an occasion to be seized. Although the new security conditions put an fresh nonsupervisory burden on all concerned parties, security- driven business practices and functional procedures have the eventuality of perfecting effectiveness and trade competitiveness.

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

The ideal of this study is to assessthe operation of information systems in the forestallment of pollution in the maritime assiduity.

Exploration Questions

1. How can information systems be used in the forestallment of pollution in the maritime assiduity?

Exploration Hypotheses

Ho Information systems can not be used to help pollution in the maritime assiduity.

Hi Information systems can be used to help pollution in the maritime assiduity.

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 the operation of information systems in the forestallment of pollution in the maritime assiduity with gutters harborage as a case study.

Description of Terms

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

Pollution This refers to the presence in or preface into the terrain of a substance which has dangerous or toxic goods.

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.