The security incident cycle of ports consists of four phases: prevention, detection, response and recovery. There have been significant improvements in securing (prevention and detection) ports since the events of September 11, 2001, but little investigation of the response to and recover from a...

This study investigates determinants of the oil spillage, vessel damage, and other-property damage costs of U.S. inland waterway tank barge accidents and their relationships. The tobit estimation of a three-equation recursive model suggests that type of accident, cause of accident, operating...

This study investigates determinants of the seaworthiness of ships involved in accidents, utilizing detailed data of individual tanker, container and bulk ship (U.S. and foreign) accidents investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard. Ordered probit estimation results suggest that ship accident...