The Gulf of Guinea in the past 14 years witnessed serious challenges of maritime piracy and armed robbery attacks. The paper analyzed maritime piracy and armed robbery in the Gulf of Guinea region from 2002 to 2015. Time series data of 14 years on the reported piracy and armed robbery attacks in the 15 Gulf of Guinea countries and nine coastal zones of Nigeria were obtained from International Maritime Bureau annual reports. Trend analysis model and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. It was found that there was significant variation in piracy and armed robbery attacks among the Gulf of Guinea countries, the greatest of attacks occurred in Nigeria. There was also a significant variation in piracy attacks among the coastal zones of Nigeria with attacks in Lagos ports and anchorages being highest within the period. There exists decreasing trend of attacks within the period.

Passenger vessel accidents have an important place in the maritime sector; because, the subject of passenger transportation is human. Costa Concordia (2012) and Sewol ferry (2014) accidents are one of the recent examples of this. In recent years, accident analysis studies have focused on the detection of human error and weaknesses. However, all of the accident analysis studies in the literature stated that geographic location and environmental conditions are important contributing factors in every examined accident. However, the number of studies in which maritime accidents analyzed geographically is very limited amount in maritime literature.In this study, 135 passenger vessel accident reports were investigated which occurred between the years 1991-2015. In the study, the status of the passenger transportation sector and the effects of marine accidents on the sector have been revealed. In addition, by analyzing the accidents spatially with ArcMap 10.3 program, risky geographical regions for passenger vessels have been determined. Determined risky regions having been compared by using the spatial analysis studies performed on different types of vessels in the literature Ýt was investigated whether there is a spatial relationship between the passenger vessel accidents and other type of vessel accidents.

It has been noted that due to its importance in the global transportation, some companies have been establishing important part of their supply chains in the seaports. In line with these changes, seaports have been changed into logistic centers by starting to give certain logistic services. With a new concept which came out with these practices and named as the "Port Centric Logistics", the goods are stored, value added logistics services are given, and deliveries are made in these centers. This study is done to determine if ‘‘Port Centric Logistics'' is being applied in Turkey, and if so, it is to identify the practice affinities and differences from the ones in other countries. In this study seaport and close by warehouses in the Aegean region is evaluated in "Port Centric Logistics" concept. This study aims to contribute to literature by identifying the PCL's practices and prospects in Turkey which is considered as an alternative to the traditional way of goods movement.

Municipalities are the institutions which can identify the regional problems better, as they are the closest governmental unit to the public. Ensuring the participation of public in the administration, improving life quality within borders of the municipality, regional public wealth, peace and welfare, meeting the local requirements in a modernized attitude are among the main duties of them. Activity and service areas of local administrations have been increased progressively during the recent years. Since the environmental problems have no limit in their nature, all communities are affected by the increasing regional issues which can be felt globally. Considering the environmental problems only in the surrounding of TRNC and trying to solve those by coastal management systems would not be possible. The environmental problems should be taken into account by the all stakeholders, having integrated coastal management in mind. The priority should be given to protect the environment and prevent pollution by information sharing with interested parties. In this study; local administration approaches on marine environment and marine activities are investigated, and the authority, responsibility and what the local administrations can act on these issues are searched and finally aimed to provide some recommendations for the existing situation in the TRNC.

Port Klang Malaysia is the 13th busiest port in the world, the capacity at the port expected to be able to meet the demand until 2018. It is one of the busiest ports in the world and also the busiest port in Malaysia. Even though there are statistics published by Port Klang Authority showing that a lot of ships using this port, this number is only based on ships that entering Port Klang. Therefore, no study has been done to investigate on how dense the traffic is in Port Klang, Malaysia the surrounding sea including Strait of Malacca. This paper has investigated on traffic density over Port Klang Malaysia and its surrounding sea using statistical analysis from AIS data. As a preliminary study, this study only collected AIS data for 7 days to represent daily traffic weekly. As a result, an hourly number of vessels, daily number of vessels, vessels classification and sizes and also traffic paths will be plotted.

This article is dealing with a brief qualitative analysis of articles published between the years 2013-2016 in (the) Journal of ETA Maritime Science (whose owner is UCTEA, The Chamber of Marine Engineers), which has been indexed by the ULAKBIM TR Dizin, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Index-Copernicus. Furthermore, the management process of the journal is also mentioned to give an example of a good management process. Besides, in this study, the types of published articles and statistics, the categories of the published articles and statistics and the reviewers, authors and articles statistics were shared out.