Intermodal Maritime Security

Supply Chain Risk Mitigation

1st Edition - November 26, 2020
Editors: Gary A. Gordon, Richard R. Young
Language: English
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Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation offers every stakeholder involved in international transactions the tools needed to assess the essential risks, threats and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain. The book examines the role intermodal maritime transportation plays in global security, surveying its critical policies, procedures, operations, infrastructure and systems. Linking new technological standards with intermodal operations, this book provides the foundational knowledge readers need, including transportation and maritime trade students, researchers, practitioners and regulatory agencies.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Combined Cameo Bios
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. 9/11, Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), and how we got to where we are?
Maritime trade and the Supply Chain Operations Reference model
Components of international maritime trade
Supporting implementation plans of the NSMS
Summary
Appendix A: Title I—Maritime Transportation Security, Section 101: findings
Part II. Overview of intermodal maritime operations
Chapter 2. Intermodalism history, advantages, and disadvantages
Intermodalism: maritime and rail
Intermodalism: maritime and truck
Advantages to containerization
Disadvantages of containerization
Container security
Needs of the small shipper and consignee
Shifts over time
Other developments
Summary
Chapter 3. Water and landside components
Physical service providers
Information service providers
Suppliers of goods
Infrastructure-related
Historical perspective
Port operations and opportunities for security breach
Information-related
Evolution of port infrastructure
Significance to supply chains
Chapter 4. Other transportation modes
Domestic ports
International ports
Risk to rail and trucking to ports
Addressing the Risk
Part III. The nature of intermodal maritime security risk
Chapter 5. Nature of the intermodal maritime security risk?
A dramatic shift in global trade
Rough seas on the North Atlantic
Port-to-port (pier-to-pier)
Door-to-port/port-to-door
Door-to-door (house-to-house)
Chapter 6. Components of intermodal maritime security risk
The container: it is just a big box, right?
Seals: keeping the goods inside and intruders out
Some final words of advice to shippers
Appendix A: directory for standards associations for seals
Appendix B: glossary of terms regarding seals
Chapter 7. Threats from terrorists and other violent nonstate actors
Maritime terrorism: a brief overview
Intermodal maritime security threats from nonideologically oriented criminals
Attacking intermodal maritime targets: motivations and challenges
Future projections of threat
Chapter 8. Physical and technological considerations
Physical security measures
Technological security measures
Summary
Chapter 9. Vulnerabilities, gaps, and the future of physical and technological security measures
Vulnerabilities and gaps in security measures
Future of physical and technological security measures
Appendix A: University, government agency, and industry research organizations
Chapter 10. Information security and cyber threats and vulnerabilities
Information security introduction
Basic principles
Auditing concepts
Transportation-related cybersecurity
Intra-shipment and post-shipment controls
Vulnerabilities
Summary
Part IV. Security measures and public policy
Chapter 11. Multilateral trading partner policies
Why the focus on intermodal transportation?
Taxonomy of intermodal threats
Immediate post-world war II
Developed nations expand global oversight
National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office
Appendix A: Wassenaar checklist for international sellers
Appendix B: Wassenaar checklist for transit and transshipment
Chapter 12. Intermodal transport security—the Israeli perspective
Part I - Overview of maritime security
Introduction
Israel's ports
How are these goals achievable?
Conclusion
Part II—implementation of security
Israel's security model
The maritime arena
The Israeli Navy
Intermodal transport
Summary
Part V. Risk mitigation approach
Chapter 13. Loading at a foreign port
Illustrative case: Ready-Tech, Inc.
Information flows at port of loading
Comparing the processes: maintaining the flow of commerce and protecting supply chains
Information and documentation
Physical, technological, and cyber impacts on risk
Port Muhammad Bin Qasim
How does this tie together?
Appendix A
Chapter 14. In-transit threats and risk management
Introduction
Threats and consequences
Risk management strategies
Conclusion
Chapter 15. At US ports
Ports illustrated
Roadblocks at ports
Preparedness is paramount
Opportunities abound
The bottom line
Chapter 16. Routing analysis, risk, and resiliency
Introduction
General discussion of risk assessment models
Transportation risk assessment models
Maritime risk assessment models
Maritime CARVER framework
How does this benefit the industry?
Where do we go from here?
Part VI. The way forward: Recommendations
Chapter 17. Systems considerations for Intermodal Maritime Security operations
System definitions and key concepts
Maritime domain awareness using systems thinking
Considerations for the intermodal Maritime Security System
Summary
Chapter 18. Public policy and security partnerships
Stemming the tide of drug smuggling
Terrorism and changing international trade forever
Partnerships to the fore
The public–private partnership
Internationalization of trade partnerships
Summary
Chapter 19. Intermodal maritime security: where do we go from here?
A high level overview of intermodal maritime security
Thinking about the threats
Physical flows
Information flows
Trading between related companies
Security measures taxonomy
Manual versus automated international trade documentation
Technological and cyber threats that impact all aspects of the supply chain
Where do we go from here?
Where research can benefit intermodal maritime security?
Appendix A—security measures taxonomy assessment
List of additional readings
Index

Gary A. Gordon

Gary A. Gordon is a Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He holds a Ph.D. and B.S in Civil Engineering, and MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland. Prior to academia, Dr. Gordon had a lengthy career in transportation operations, security and infrastructure design and construction, to include in the U.S. Army Reserve. During his career he held positions as Assistant Federal Security Director-Surface Transportation for DHS/Transportation Security Administration and Assistant Chief Engineer-Design & Construction of a former Class I Northeast Railroad. He is a co-editor of Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation, co-author of Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters and Securing Integrated Transportation Networks and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Transportation Security.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor of Professional Practice, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

Richard R. Young

Richard R. Young is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.S. in Operations Management from Rider University, M.B.A. from Albany University, and Ph.D. in Business Logistics from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Young is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport of the United Kingdom and is accepted to practice before the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission. Prior to academia, he held various supply chain management positions in industry. Dr. Young is on the editorial boards of several leading supply chain journals, a Fulbright German Research Scholar, and he received the 2008 Distinguished Educator Award of the National Défense Transportation Association. He is co-author of the book Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters and co-editor of Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation.

Affiliations and expertise

Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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