Application Of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) To The Shipping Traffic Safety Management Of The Port And Its Adjoining Waters

Maritime safety is noticeable questions, and one of the most important components in maritime safety is the shipping traffic safety. The port is the beginning and the end of the maritime traffic. Because of the increasing volume of traffic of shipping, transportation tonnage and dangerous freight, the shipping traffic environment become more crowded and dangerous. Therefore, the countermeasures of shipping traffic safety should be studied with the new view under so complicated a traffic environment condition. For a long time, each shipping countries does a large number of work for guaranteeing shipping traffic's security. But maritime affairs, such as vessel stranded, colliding, wrecking, greasy dirt, fire, etc. still take place time and again in the whole world, which have caused the serious consequences. Except the constant development of the global marine and maritime force majeure, the majority reason is because of vessel design, operation management, personnel working attitude and skill, etc.The system of port water areas is one subsystem of maritime traffic system. There are various safety evaluation methods, for example, Management method, the pluralism counting analytical method, operations research method, the trade organizing method, fuzzy theory, gray theory, neural network method, computer to assisting numerous evaluation assessments etc. This kind of method is playing a corresponding role in each field to the concrete problem, but each of them has the problem of general acceptability and compatibility. The field of sea transport lacks the science applicable safety evaluation tool for a long time, but the accident losses of over ten billion dollars every year need the scientific decision support tool. In order to improve the security management level of the field of sea transport and avoid the omitting accident, the Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) arises at the historic moment.FSA is a systematic and standardized comprehensive assessment method. The purpose of applying this method in some aspects such as shipping design, shipping and safety management, etc. is to carry on omni-directional formal assessment in the relevant item of ship designing, examining, operating and shipping, through adopting 5 standardized steps. The purpose is to improve safety of maritime people life, crewman health, marine environment, vessel and goods property resource, etc. The paper applies the procedure of FSA to the marine traffic safety assessment of the port and its adjoining waters and attempt to work out concrete method suitable to the marine traffic safety of the port and its adjoining waters in the study of each step.The innovative job of this paper followed as below:(1) Employ unascertained measure to set up precautionary assessment model of the marine traffic safety of the port and its adjoining waters. Comparing with the fuzzy mathematics assessment model, it is more suitable to the marine traffic safety assessment of the port and its adjoining waters.(2) Through the advance manipulative methodological research about the risk of ships safety condition, the principles and the flow sheet of the advance control about the risk of ships safety condition are formulated. The purpose is to find potential dangerous factor as soon as possible.(3) The theory of social marketing is applied to marine safety management. For solve the problem, the theme is analyzed from four segments, which are confirming social marketing goal, confirming obstacle, constituting marketing strategy and evaluating effect.(4) Because benefits and expenses of the safe risk control scheme are often invisible, it is very difficult to measure. Therefore it is unable to use traditional CBA method carry on the cost–benefit analysis. So AHP (the analytic hierarchy process) is applied to the cost–benefit analysis in the risk control scheme of the marine traffic safety of the port and its adjoining waters.