Recent advances in the maritime industry include research and development of new sophisticated ships with a number smart functionalities enhanced autonomy. The functions autonomy levels though come at cost increased connectivity. This results ship vulnerability to cyber-attacks, which may lead financial loss, environmental pollution, safety accidents. aim this study is propose novel method for cybersecurity risk assessment systems. In method, Cyber-Preliminary Hazard Analysis steps are...

Ships and maritime infrastructure are becoming increasingly interconnected as the industry is undergoing 4.0 revolution. This development associated with novel risk types such increased potential for successful cyberattacks. Several review studies have investigated regulatory framework in connection to cybersecurity, vulnerabilities systems, cyberattack scenarios, assessment techniques. None of them though, has implemented a systematic literature bibliometric analysis available academic...

The maritime industry is currently ongoing into a digital transformation to develop cleaner, safer and smarter transport services. Establishing such services requires identifying assessing new emerging risks as software design flaws. Thus, suitable hazard identification risk analysis methods must be developed implemented for these complex This study aims novel methodology by integrating Systems Theoretic Process Analysis, Bayesian Network, Noisy-OR gates, Parent divorcing technique...

Effectively addressing safety, security and cyber-security challenges is quintessential for progressing the development of next generation maritime autonomous shipping. This study aims at developing a novel hybrid, semi-structured process hazardous scenarios identification ranking. method integrates operational functional hazard approaches, whilst considering cybersecurity hazards. applied to comprehensively assess safety an inland waterways ship preliminary design phase. The are identified...

The Collision Avoidance (CA) system constitutes a key enabling technology for the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), appropriate functionality of which is critical assuring navigation safety. Although several techniques including testing collision scenarios in virtual environment can be employed, trust phase results depends on number tested and their coverage. This study aims at proposing systematic automatic process generation traffic that employed CA testing. First, range...

The maritime industry is paving the way towards developing Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs) through adoption of key enabling technologies for safety-critical operations, which are associated with new challenges, especially at their early design phase. This study aims to develop a methodology conduct risk-informed Collision Avoidance System (CAS) MASSs. Pertinent regulatory instruments reviewed identify functional and system requirements baseline CAS configuration component level....

Recent developments have rendered the Dual Fuel (DF) engines an attractive alternative solution for achieving cost-efficient compliance to environmental regulations. The present study focuses on safety investigation of a marine DF engine in order identify potential implications. This is based integrated model, which was developed GT-ISE™ software and capable predicting both steady-state behaviour transient response. model includes thermodynamic simulation module as well control system...

Abstract Several research and innovation initiatives have been pursued worldwide for the development of autonomous unmanned ships. However, these ships’ wider adoption is limited by existing regulatory framework, which presently does not provide clear guidelines requirements design operation The aim this study to comprehensively analyse maritime safety security framework including national international regulations designing, building, testing operating next-generation inland waterways (IWW)...

The autonomous ships' introduction is associated with a number of challenges including the lack appropriate risk acceptance criteria to support assessment process during initial design phases. This study aims develop rational methodology for selecting matrix ratings, which are required perform and conventional ships at an early stage. consists four phases employs individual societal determine ratings groups people exposed risks. During first second phase, input parameters based on...

Autonomous ships represent an emerging paradigm within the maritime sector, poised to bring multiple advantages. Although numerous prototypes have been developed, deployment of large autonomous has predominantly remained confined domestic waters or specialized military applications. The extensive adoption is hampered by several challenges, primarily centered around safety. However, direct assessment technologies on large-scale vessels can be very costly. Small-scale autonomy testing may...

The lubricating oil systems are essential for ensuring the safe and reliable operation of cruise ships power plants as demonstrated by recent incidents. aim this study is to investigate safety enhancement a ship system employing safety, reliability, availability diagnosability analyses, which based on functional modelling implemented in MADe™ software. analysis combining Failure Modes, Effects Criticality Analysis Fault Tree Analysis. Subsequently, Reliability Block Diagrams employed...

Abstract The Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) constitutes a critical key enabling technology required for operating Maritime Surface Ships (MASS). To assure the safety of MASS operations, effective identification potential objects and target ships interacting with own is quintessential. This study proposes systematic method to identify items MASS. based on similar approach previously employed encountering items’ in robotics, which customised herein needs. developed applied short-sea...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) represent a systems category developed and promoted in the maritime industry to automate functions system operations. In this study, novel Combinatorial Approach for Safety Analysis is presented, which addresses traditional safety methods’ limitations by integrating System Theoretic Process (STPA), Events Sequence Identification (ETI) Fault Tree (FTA). The method results development of detailed that captures effects both physical components/subsystems software...

Recent regulatory requirements for shipping emissions control have led to the adoption of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel and design LNG-fuelled vessels. Considering potential safety implications due system failure/unavailability, this study aims at analysis low-pressure LNG feeding using novel model-based methodology. The proposed methodology is based on functional modelling, leading failure diagrams development, combines use Failure Modes, Effects, Criticality Analysis (FMECA)...