Development of Ship’s Safety Management Evaluation Tool for Maritime Safety Information System – A Case Study of Korean Flag Ship and Shipping Company

Maritime transportation by ship is expanding in accordance with the growth of global economy and the increase of international trades between countries. Recently, as a result of FTA (free trade agreements) between countries, worldwide cargo volume by ship is expected to increase. Such an increase in maritime transportation has led to maritime traffic, and this poses a greater risk of maritime accidents in a county’s coastal water. What’s more, the mounting traffic of yacht and pleasure boats in littoral sea from the increase in maritime leisure activities are enhancing possibilities of maritime accidents. In accordance with such changes in maritime environment, it requires higher safety management skills from shipping companies, the main subject in charge of the safety matters. However, shipping companies tend to acknowledge safety as just a cost without profitability. Therefore, in this paper, the authors propose a ship’s safety evaluation tool, which can measure ship & shipping company’s safety management level. The authors have drawn conclusions with an actual proof analysis in the paper. First of all, the authors established a safety evaluation tool, which have database and index for calculation of safety conditions since previous research about concept of safety management evaluation system. Secondly, the authors applied this proposed safety evaluation tool to Korean shipping company as a case study. Lastly, the authors found out the insufficient shipping companies on the safety management in ocean-going and coastal shipping industry.