Inspection Policy of a Port State Control Authority

A port State control authority (PSCA) undertakes inspections to enforce that ships visiting its ports meet the required standards. By doing so, the PSCA wants to reduce the frequency of shipping accidents and to minimize expected social loss in its territorial water. Due to resources constraints, port States control authorities realize it impractical to inspect all the ships. The general approach taken by them is to set overall inspection rates to ensure that a certain number of ships are inspected, and use targeting factors to focus resources on those ships most likely to be substandard. In this paper, the authors use a Stackelberg game to model a PSCA's problem of setting an overall inspection rate. Then, based on mechanism design theory, they propose an inspection scheme which can help the PSCA to differentiate between good and substandard ships. Their results can help port States control authorities to design inspection policies at their waters under various circumstances.

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  Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
  11 Yuk Choi Road, Hung Hom
  Kowloon, Hong Kong  China 

  Southwest Jiaotong University

  No. 111, 1st North Section, Erhuan Road
  Chengdu, Sichuan  China  610031
• Authors:
  • Gan, Xianghua
  • Li, Kevin X
  • Zheng, Haisha
• Conference:
  • International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) 2010 - Integrated Transportation Logistics: From Low Cost to High Responsibility
  • Location: Chengdu Sichuan, China
  • Date: 2010-10-15 to 2010-10-18
• Publication Date: 2011-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 330-336
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) 2010 - Integrated Transportation Logistics: From Low Cost to High Responsibility, 15 - 18 October 2010, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Inspection; Maritime safety; Policy; Port authorities; Water transportation crashes
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01341247
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9789623677165
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 30 2011 6:50AM