2026-09-18T19:13:06Zhttps://dspace.mit.edu/server/oai/requestoai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/335732022-01-13T07:54:39Zcom_1721.1_7582com_1721.1_7581col_1721.1_131023
Hauke Kite-Powell.
Petrakakos, Nikolaos Harilaos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Ocean Engineering
2006-07-31T15:13:50Z
2006-07-31T15:13:50Z
2005
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33573
63516969
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 92).
The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 on New York and Washington DC shed light on the many security shortcomings that sea ports and the entire import and export process face. A primary source of these problems is the information sharing process which makes it hard to track the source of a problem in the import and export process due to lack of information and coordination. This thesis attempts to examine these data sharing problems by looking at what federal agencies, ports, and other private firms have been doing to solve the problems. The document exchange between various stakeholders and the process behind that was also examined to find potential problems. The reason behind doing this is because it is essential to understand the process and its problems before any meaningful results can be extracted from examining the efforts being done to solve the problems. The findings were similar for all cases showing that the primary reason preventing any of these problems to be solved is the unwillingness of commercial stakeholders to share information due to lack of incentives and privacy concerns.
by Nikolaos Harilaos Petrakakos.
S.M.
92 p.
4387441 bytes
4391236 bytes
application/pdf
application/pdf
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
Ocean Engineering.
Port security and information technology
Thesis
application/pdf
Publication
unknown
unknown
<Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="f110f3d5-8dfe-423a-8853-84eeb6df96e1">
<Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type>
<Language>eng</Language>
<Title>Port security and information technology</Title>
<PublishedIn>
<Publication>
</Publication>
</PublishedIn>
<PublicationDate>2005</PublicationDate>
<Authors>
<Author>
<DisplayName>Petrakakos, Nikolaos Harilaos</DisplayName>
<Affiliation>
<OrgUnit>
</OrgUnit>
</Affiliation>
</Author>
</Authors>
<Editors>
</Editors>
<Publishers>
<Publisher>
<DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName>
<OrgUnit />
</Publisher>
</Publishers>
<License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License>
<Keyword>Ocean Engineering.</Keyword>
<Abstract>The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 on New York and Washington DC shed light on the many security shortcomings that sea ports and the entire import and export process face. A primary source of these problems is the information sharing process which makes it hard to track the source of a problem in the import and export process due to lack of information and coordination. This thesis attempts to examine these data sharing problems by looking at what federal agencies, ports, and other private firms have been doing to solve the problems. The document exchange between various stakeholders and the process behind that was also examined to find potential problems. The reason behind doing this is because it is essential to understand the process and its problems before any meaningful results can be extracted from examining the efforts being done to solve the problems. The findings were similar for all cases showing that the primary reason preventing any of these problems to be solved is the unwillingness of commercial stakeholders to share information due to lack of incentives and privacy concerns.</Abstract>
<Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right"
>
</Access>
</Publication>