ABSTRACT
Each maritime country have to realize three main maritime functions, these are:
– maritime safety; – maritime security; – maritime defence.
Maritime safety is the safety of life and property at sea from the environmental and operational threats, as well as the safety of maritime environment from pollution by the ships. On the national level the maritime safety is being achieved as the result of the existing maritime safety legal framework; operating the global and regional navigational infrastructure, but mainly as the result of operation of the highly specialized maritime operational services. Each maritime country possess not less then 10 different kinds of maritime operational services. Most important of them are the following:
– ships classification, survey, certification and inspection services;
– aids to navigation service; – hydrography and navigational information service; – search and rescue (SAR) service; – marine environment protection service; – combating the environmental pollutions service; – Vessel Traffic Services (VTSs); – ensuring the security of the ships and port facilities
service, etc.
