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THE SECURITY AND SAFETY OF MARITIME NAVIGATION THROUGH ROMANIAN MARITIME HARBORS

2016; Naval Academy Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21279/1454-864x-16-i2-007

2392-8956

Sergiu Lupu, Andrei Pocora, Romeo Boşneagu, Cosmin Katona,

International Maritime Law Issues

In changing times the design and build of ships has altered and the needs of the professional sailor must be adapted to meet the requirements of these modern times.The practical seaman must adapt alongside a developing hi-tech industry and be able to improve when the need arises.The increasing of the capacity of commercial ships produced a depth boundary of many ports and harbors.Constanta harbor along with the two satellite harbors, Midia and Mangalia, is at the crossroads of trade routes linking landlocked country markets of Central and Eastern Europe in the Transcaucasus region, Central Asia and the Far East.The security and safety of navigation in the western Black Sea is in the care of civil and military departments with clearly defined prerogatives.Romanian Naval Authority through Constanta Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) supervises the coordination and control of navigation in roadstead and maritime docks by providing navigation guidance with seven lighthouses, one radio-marker, three entrance lights, three flashers and four fog signals.This paper aims to present how the safety and security in maritime navigation on the Romanian borders and new improvements is currently assured by using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).Thus, such a device could be used to monitor the seabed, to determine the hydro-acoustic diver fingerprint, underwater vehicles and surface vessels.