Developments Of Securing The Nation s Ports
Developments in securing the nation s ports have occurred since September 11, 2001:
According to American Association of Ports Authorities (n. d) the United States is
served by some 360 commercial ports that provide approximately 3,200 cargo and
passenger handling facilities and there are more than 150 deep draft seaports under
the jurisdiction of 126 public seaport agencies located along the Atlantic, Pacific,
Gulf and Great Lakes coasts, as well as in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. Transportation Security Administration (2010), broaden the
definition of the maritime sector to include a wide range of watercraft and vessels
and consists of approximately 95,000 miles of coastline, 361 ports, more than ... Show
more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Furthermore, on August 9, 2004, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act
of 2004 were signed into law. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the
United States Coast Guard (USCG) are the Sector Specific Agencies (SSAs) for the
Transportation Systems Sector. They teamed up with the Department of
Transportation to coordinate the preparedness activities in the national maritime
domain. The SSAs partners functions are to prevent, protect against, respond to, and
recover from all hazards that could have a debilitating effect on homeland security,
public health and safety, or economic well being using the National Infrastructure
Protection Plan risk management framework as risk management and mitigation
framework (Transportation Security Administration 2010).
Dual threats of terrorism and natural disasters and their affected port security: Provide
examples to illustrate your findings.
A natural disaster is a sudden calamitous event that is the result of atmospheric and
other geological imbalances that threatens the viability of the organization and is
characterized by creating chaos, disruption of operations, confusion, and even death
of employees (Morrison, et al 2014, p. 66). Natural disasters that can have more
negative impact or affects on the port security include earthquake, hurricane, flood,
volcanic eruption, tsunami, just to mention but few. Also, some unwanted, exotic
plant,