국내 해상위험물 관리체계의 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

The ratio of dangerous goods volume to total cargo volume in international maritime transportation is assumed to be over 50%. And, the dangerous goods volume is reported as being increased every year and thereby the potential for dangerous goods accident also increases. Therefore, the study on efficient management system for maritime dangerous goods is required.

In this study, author tried to find problems on the national dangerous goods management system and to suggest some alternatives to solve these problems. To do this, author studied IMO conventions and codes in regard to dangerous goods and dangerous goods management systems for main advanced countries. The results of study are as follows.

First, national dangerous goods regulations should be unified. Now, national dangerous goods regulations are separated into many fields. So, it causes law enforcement to be inefficient and inconsistent. To solve this, dangerous goods regulations are required to be unified.

Second, good cooperation among jurisdictional administrations is required. Like as regulation, national jurisdictional administration for dangerous goods is separated, especially much on land field. This makes the dangerous goods management to be inconsistent and inefficient. To solve this, good cooperation among jurisdictional administrations is required. Third, all inspections for dangerous goods should be performed by one organization. Now, dangerous goods inspections are performed by many organizations. So, it causes customers to be inconvenient. To solve this, all inspections should be done by one specialized organization.

Fourth, specialized training/education programs for response to dangerous goods spill are required. Now, there are no specialized training/education programs for HNS spill on both land and sea. So, these programs should be quickly established at concerned organizations.

Fifth, the inspection for imported dangerous goods containers should be reinforced. Now, many dangerous goods containers are imported without internal check and this may cause unexpected accidents during land transportation. To prevent this, the inspection for dangerous goods containers using special equipments should be reinforced.

In regard to this study, the topic to be studied more is to develop a realtime tracking/managing system for efficient management of dangerous goods which are carried by vehicles, because nowadays many dangerous goods are transported by multi-modal transportation which transportation modes of sea, land and air are combined.