Deep water drilling operations are expected to increase in the near future. Various types
of offshore platforms including fixed and floating platforms are to be built for drilling,
production and storage of oil and gas. Many of different platform types (SPAR, TLP,
FPSO etc.) will be designed depending on local environmental conditions. The risk
analysis of the selected platform will be of importance in terms of operational safety.
In this study, a fuzzy-based approach has been suggested for the offshore platform
risk analysis. Initially, mobile drilling units, mobile production units and mono-hull
structures exposed accidents were investigated extensively. Methods of risk and safety
analysis which are used in the marine industry were examined. As a case study, risk
analysis for a FPSO turret system was performed. The fuzzy-based approach would be
appropriate tool to obtain accurate values of the parameters like failure rates and the
frequency of occurrence.

Maritime transport is the most environmentally friendly type of transport mode.
However, air pollution and greenhouse gases from international shipping are increasing
because of the growing maritime traffic. These exhaust emissions cause global warming,
acid rain and a reduction in air quality which has serious adverse effects on human
health.
“The Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships” as Annex VI of
MARPOL Convention 73/78 brought an arrangement about limitation of NOX and SOX
from exhaust gas for global and emission control area (ECA). Turkey has also ratified
Annex VI on 26th February 2013.
Turkey has conducted “the European Union IPA Twinning Project for the Control of
Ship-Sourced Emissions” to control emissions. The project supports establishing an
ECA in the Sea of Marmara and Turkish Straits, and it is intended to be completed
in near future. After establishing ECA in Turkey, all ships have to use fuel oil which
contains max 1% m/m sulphur or alternative technology that can reduce sulphur
amount 4.0 g SOX/kWh level from main and auxiliary engine. After 2015 this figures
will be respectively 0,1 m/m and 0,4 g SOX/kWh. On the other hand, according to the
latest revision of the Turkish Regulation on Reduction of Sulphur Rate in Some Types of
Fuel Oils, inland vessels and all the vessels at berth, regardless of their flag, are obliged
to use marine fuels with sulphur content not more than 0.1% by mass.
During the last two decades, different technologies have been tested in ports in order to
reduce ship emissions. One of them is known as the cold ironing system which provides
ships to use shore-side electricity as onshore electric power supply instead of working
auxiliary engines while ships are lifting at berth. In this system, emission from ships
during berthing are completely eliminated by using electrical power from national grid
as alternative energy source rather than fuel oils which are necessary for combustion
process in auxiliary engines to generate electricity.
To sum up, this study discusses the cold ironing system as the most economically and
environmentally friendly solution on the reduction of ship emissions from the aspect
of Turkish port operators while ships are at berth based on a case study for Marport
Container Terminal, which is the biggest private container port in the Sea of Marmara.
In the case study, by using data of ships calling Marport within 2012, the total emission
from ships, environment impact of the emissions on air quality and climate change, and
externalities on health costs and others have been discussed. From the financial side,
investment costs of cold ironing systems for container ports have been analysed with
the investment return period by using the Net Present Value method.
In conclusion, the results from the case study present that cold ironing method
is the most environmentally solution for ship emissions at the hotelling period and
investment return period does not take a long time.

In this paper, efficiency standards of the electric motors in European Union and the
past and future developments are examined. In addition, other similar standards are
mentioned and the electric motor standards which will be legally enforced in European
Union in near future are given and these standards are explained with the help of
graphic curves of the efficiency tests that are performed in related motors.
The importance of complying with these standards for Turkey in manufacturing and
using electric motors is emphasized.

One of the most important issues in maritime industry is to prevent future marine
accidents by aiming minimisation of damage to people, property and environment.
Investigation of marine accidents and determination of factors affecting safety on
board constitute the most important step in achieving this goal. In order to manage
safe operation of ships, vessels’ compliance with international standards is continuously
monitored by Flag State and Port State Authorities. In addition to these controls, tanker
companies are subject to audit by oil and chemical industries. In this study, Turkish
tanker companies’ SIRE (Ship Inspection Report Programme) and CDI (Chemical
Distribution Institute) inspection results are examined, deficiencies and their root
causes are investigated. As one of the most frequent errors, bridge related deficiencies
are presented statistically and the root causes contributing these deficiencies are
discussed.

It is a well-known fact that around %90 of the world trade is carried out through
sea ways in which about 30000 ships are involved. On board ships, one of the basic
components of seaborne trade, 1.187.000 seaman (mariners) from diverse nationalities
are employed. In other words, over one million seamen devote their efforts to support
the welfare of the rest of the world population. This devotion, and thus the crucial
importance of mariners, is verified in an expression running as “if there were no such
devotion from mariners, half of the world population would starve of hunger and the
other half of the world starve of getting frozen.”
Seamanship has a distinctive place in vocations. It has a labor intensive profession
which requires utmost attention in terms of safety. Even a little ignorance, neglect or
carelessness in this profession is likely to bring about serious accidents and damages
most of which might result in deadly events. The purpose of this research is to evaluate
the experiences and problems encountered on board ships by the students from DEU
Maritime Faculty. The research also aims to provide the prospective cadets with a
guideline which could be made use of concerning safety issues. The data collected from
the “Safety and Wound Information Form” will be analyzed through SPSS20 program.

Competitive advantage in logistics operations is possible by analyzing data to create
information and turning that information into decision. Supply chain optimization
depends on effective management of chain knowledge. Analyzing data from supply
chain and making a decision creates complex operations. Therefore, these operations
require benefitting from information technology. In today’s global world, businesses
use outsourcing for logistics services to focus on their own field, so are seeking to
achieve competitive advantage against competitors. Outsourcing requires sharing of
various information and data with companies that provide logistical support. Effective
strategies are based on well-analyzed the data and information. Best options for right
decisions can be created only from good analysis. That’s why companies that supply
logistics services achieve competitive advantage using decision support systems (DSS)
in industrial competition. In short, DSS has become driving force for every business in
today’s knowledge-based economy.