Importance Of Port Management In Maritime Industry

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According to iRami (2012) stated that the shipping plays an important role in world trade which is the backbone of the world economy. Recently, without these boats and vessels provide transportation services, many countries will be unable to participate in world trade and will not be as prosperous. From centuries past, the sea has always been important to all country at the world which as an important factor of economic development of every maritime country. The maritime sector contributes significantly to the economic development. Underling this is the fact that 95% of the country international trade is carried in whole or in part by maritime transport. An efficiency of the transport that will improve the liberalization of the economy, the …show more content…

Since, it needs to keep those ports to be organized, supervised, and functioning continuous. Besides that, port management required to have a team of professional port employees or manpower to work with the transactions that occur at the port as there are numerous types of business interactions would be occur at the active ports. For instance, the activities of port are includes the movement of ships, containers, and other cargo, the loading and unloading of ships and containers, customs activities, house cargo, rental spaces, and warehousing. In order to ensure requires all transactions occur at the port are run smoothly, there is a must for a team of professional port employees to manage the …show more content…

For the case of suspected maritime terrorism, that was the oil tanker Limburg. An explosion occurred involving this French oil tanker in 2002 while she was waiting for tugboat taken to Mina al-Dabah which near to the Mukalla. The blast destroys the oil tanker of Limburg and affects the ship crews’ fatalities; it also spilled around 90,0000barrels of oil into Gulf of Aden. Therefore, the security at the seaport plays a role important to ensure the safety and security of the port and ship which to avoid a huge of the loss cargo and

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