The Effectiveness Of International Ship And Port Facilities Security (ISPS) Code At Northport, Klang, Selangor

Abstract

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted the special measures to enhance maritime security. These measures specified in chapter XI-2 of SOLAS and ISPS Code force on 1 July 2004. The ISPS code forces the ports, ships and all organizations, who work in marine industry, to keep their security gates more tightly. This situation affects involved parties in good and bad ways. Good impacts like increasing in security level, efficiency,effectiveness and competitiveness and bad effect like increasing in annual cost, administration works and manning