Ensuring Navigational Safety and Mitigate Maritime Traffic Risks While Designing Port Approaches and Ship Maneuvering Areas

Safety of ships is of major importance when approaching and berthing a terminal. With continuously increasing ship sizes, this increases pressure on proper design of new waterborne infrastructure, but also on safety and risk assessment methodologies of existing infrastructure for new generation vessels. This chapter introduces international approaches how to design and assess waterborne infrastructure like fairways and maneuvering areas as well as the basic concepts of safety and risk assessments used in the maritime world.