Intermodal Maritime Security
Supply Chain Risk Mitigation
- 1st Edition - November 26, 2020
- Latest edition
- Editors: Gary A. Gordon, Richard R. Young
- Language: English
Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation offers every stakeholder involved in international transactions the tools needed to assess the essential risks, threat… Read more
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.
- Blends academic knowledge with real-world experiences
- Drawn from subject matter experts in academia, importers and exporters, transportation firms, and trade intermediaries
- Breadth of multidisciplinary coverage from maritime supply chains, port and maritime operations, as well as cyber and physical security
Transportation, Operations Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and Maritime researchers, scholars, and graduate students. Maritime industry practitioners, consultants, and authorities
Section I Introduction
1. 9/11, MTSA and how we got to where we are
Section II Overview of Intermodal Maritime Operations
2. Intermodalism History, Advantages, and Disadvantages
3. Water and Landside Components
4. Other Transportation Modes
Section III The Nature of Intermodal Maritime Security Risk
5. Nature of the Intermodal Maritime Security Risk
6. Components of Intermodal Maritime Security Risk
7. Threats from Terrorists and other Violent Non-State Actors
8. Physical and Technological Considerations
9. Vulnerabilities, Gaps and the Future of Physical and Technological Security Measures
10. Information Security and Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities
Section IV Security Measures and Public Policy
11. Multilateral Trading Partner Policies
12. Intermodal Transport Security: An Israeli Perspective
Section V Risk Mitigation Approach
13. Assessment at Foreign Ports of Loading
14. In-Transit Threats and Risk Management
15. Assessment at U.S. Ports
16. Routing Analysis, Risk and Resiliency
Section VI The Way Forward: Recommendations
17. Application of Systems Theory
18. Public Policy and Security Partnerships
19. Intermodal Maritime Security: Where Do We Go From Here?
“This book provides an excellent overview of the enormous challenges faced by the industry in the maritime supply chain and its connections to other modes of transportation. Both editors and the contributing authors have excellent academic credentials and have clearly carried out extensive research into the field…This book is well worth the investment for those who are interested in the increasingly complex field of supply chain security and how the security of ports and shipping both affect and are affected by this dynamic field.” -- Mike Edgerton, CPP, manager of port security for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 26, 2020
- Language: English
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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, USARY
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, USARead Intermodal Maritime Security on ScienceDirect