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Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment

Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment refers to the overall procedure of professionally inspecting, measuring and assessing impacting navigational safety caused by maritime development projects (projects applicable for safety audit), reflecting the results in the design, thereby ensuring a futuristic and safety-friendly development.
Also, the Assessment eliminates potentially risky factors impacting ship passages through operation and management of Maritime Safety Assessment to contribute to reduce maritime accident rates, maximize port efficiency, and conduct planned projects.

Who?

Business entity seeking to conduct safety assessment business

When?

Before making the decision on planning approval and permission

Where?

Designated agencies with technology and personnel

What?

Navigational safety and risky factors according to the business to be assessed

How?

A system to professionally inspect, measure and assess, secure ship passage safety, and create measures to reduce maritime accidents

Designated as a professional authority (Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment Enforcement Rules, Article 8)
Register Safety assessment agencies and change the factors on adequacy review (Maritime Safety Act Enforcement Policy, Article 15)
Pre-review the Safety Assessment Report (Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment Enforcement Rules Article 19 and 20)
Screening committee meeting support (Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment Enforcement Rules, Article 21
Review the opinions of exemption statement of Safety Assessment report (Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment Enforcement Rules, Article 32)
Presentation of opinions regarding safety assessment criteria and safety assessment agencies, etc.
Conduct Pre-consultations of Maritime Construction (about Maritime Traffic Environment).

A service that providing appropriate information on locations and procedures in consideration of maritime traffic at the beginning of construction planning.

Safety assessment criteria for applicable businesses
Safety Assessment Criteria		Maritime transportation status survey	Maritime transportation status measurement		Maritime transportation system adequacy assessment				Maritime traffic safety measures
Safety Assessment Criteria		Maritime transportation status survey	Status measurement	Degree of traffic congestion	Integration safety	Berthing safety	Mooring safety	Maritime traffic flow	Maritime traffic safety measures
Waters	Set-up	●	●	●	●	△	-	△	●
Waters	Modification	●	●	△	●	△	-	-	●
Water facilities	Building attachments	●	●	△	●	△	△	△	●
Water facilities	Repairs	●	●	-	●	-	-	-	●
Port or dock	Development	●	●	●	●	●	●	△	●
Port or dock	Re-development	●	●	△	●	●	△	-	●
Other businesses that impact maritime transportation safety		●	●	△	●	△	△	△	●

● : Mandatory

△ : Depending on situations

(about) SHS(Ship Handling Simulator) simulates the sea conditions around the ship in the same way as the real situations, so that it makes ship operators feel a sense of reality visually.
(Functions) Maritime traffic safety assessment of ports and ships’ routes, Analysis of marine accidents, Testing for improving ship maneuvering, Training for emergency responses, Application research of navigational equipment.
(Equipment) Merchant ship, Tug ship, Ferry, Fishing vessel Bridges.