Journal of ETA Maritime Science

269-270

Authors: Selçuk NAS

This was a difficult year for Asia and Europe regions. Many martyrs were given for the sake of democracy. We, as Board of the Chamber and as journal administration, hereby condemn all organizations those execute murders by manipulating people who are unable to establish cause-and-effect relationships for themselves. We stubbornly support all scholars and researchers who strive to prepare articles in this environment. We are with you once more for the last issue of our journal in 2016. Studies on maritime safety and marine traffic issues have come into prominence in this issue. In addition, we shared our research as a technical note with our readers, regarding the performance of our journal. We have also noted some of the outstanding subjects in our region about the maritime issues. The first FSRU LNG type vessel has berthed at ETKI LNG Terminal in the western coast of Turkey in 12.12.2016. The GMC 2016 international conference organized by our chamber and Istanbul University on 24-25 October 2016 in Turkey has been successfully completed. I would like to express my gratitude to authors who sent their valuable studies for this issue, to our reviewers, to our editorial board, to our section editors, to our foreign language editors who provide quality publications by following our publication policies diligently and also to layout editors who spent great efforts in the preparation of this issue. I wish for a peaceful year for 2017.

289-302

Authors: Özkan UĞURLU, Serdar YILDIZ

Taşımaya konu olan unsurun insan olması sebebiyle yolcu gemisi kazalarının denizcilik sektöründe önemli bir yeri vardır. CostaConcordia (2012) ve Sewol feribotu (2014) kazaları bunun en yakın örneklerindendir. Son yıllarda kaza çalışmalarında insan hatalarının ve zayıf noktalarının tespit edilmesine odaklanılmıştır. Ancak literatürdeki tüm kaza analizi çalışmalarında, incelenen her kazada coğrafi konumun ve çevresel şartların da önemli bir etken faktör olduğu belirtilmektedir. Buna karşın denizcilikte kazaların coğrafi analizinin yapıldığı çalışma sayısı oldukça kısıtlıdır. Bu çalışmada, 1991-2015 yılları arasında meydana gelmiş 135 adet yolcu gemisi kazasının raporları incelenmiştir. Çalışmada yolcu taşımacılığı sektörünün durumu ve meydana gelen kazaların sektöre etkisi ortaya konmuştur. Ayrıca incelenen kazalar ArcMap 10.3 programı ile konumsal olarak analiz edilerek, yolcu gemisi kazaları için riskli coğrafi bölgeler belirlenmiştir. Belirlenen riskli bölgeler, literatürde farklı gemi tipleri üzerinde yapılmış konumsal analiz çalışmaları ile karşılaştırılarak, yolcu gemisi kazaları ve diğer gemi kazaları arasında konumsal açıdan bir ilişkinin olup olmadığı incelenmiştir.

317-332

Authors: Ali ÖNCÜ, Gülsüm BEKTAŞ, Serdar KUM

Municipalities are the institutions which can identify the regional problems better, as they are the closest governmental unit to the public. Ensuring the participation of public in the administration, improving life quality within borders of the municipality, regional public wealth, peace and welfare, meeting the local requirements in a modernized attitude are among the main duties of them. Activity and service areas of local administrations have been increased progressively during the recent years. Since the environmental problems have no limit in their nature, all communities are affected by the increasing regional issues which can be felt globally. Considering the environmental problems only in the surrounding of TRNC and trying to solve those by coastal management systems would not be possible. The environmental problems should be taken into account by the all stakeholders, having integrated coastal management in mind. The priority should be given to protect the environment and prevent pollution by information sharing with interested parties. In this study; local administration approaches on marine environment and marine activities are investigated, and the authority, responsibility and what the local administrations can act on these issues are searched and finally aimed to provide some recommendations for the existing situation in the TRNC.

343-354

Authors: Remzi FIŞKIN, Selçuk NAS

This article is dealing with a brief qualitative analysis of articles published between the years 2013-2016 in the Journal of ETA Maritime Science (whose owner is UCTEA, The Chamber of Marine Engineers), which has been indexed by the ULAKBIM TR Dizin, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and IndexCopernicus. Furthermore, the management process of the journal is also mentioned to give an example of a good management process. Besides, in this study, the types of published articles and statistics, the categories of the published articles and statistics and the reviewers, authors and articles statistics were shared out.