ABSTRACT
Global commerce is largely dependent on the movement of shipping containers, which carry a large proportion of world trade by volume. A container terminal connects sea and land and can be employed for transferring containers to and from ships. It can be used for handling containers rapidly, economically, precisely, and in greater volumes than conventional ports. Nowadays, container sea transport has become the major transport method of international main sea lines. In many countries, container transport, especially container sea transport, has become a widely used transport method of great importance. As a result, individual governments are required to assess the risk facing their ports and establish a three-tier security. The aim of this study is to exploit a decision making model for evaluating the security level of a port, based on the security scores of a ship’s cargo containers prior to ship/port interface. This study makes use of a Bayesian network by exploiting a conceptual and sound methodology for evaluating the security level of a port. A test case is conducted to demonstrate how the developed model is validated and used for applications.
