The Security of the Citizen’s Ports

Abstract

One of the most important subjects in relation to the functioning of the ports is the conversion of the aged and unused port’s spaces.
Entire societies can be developed and obtain the progress that they need when the ports stop ignoring the city and develop great areas, most of them abandoned, converting them into new spaces for the citizen’s enjoyment and tourism.
With the come into force of the ISPS, a conflict appears. New “citizen’s ports” must be incorporated to the Port facility security plan from the starting point of the project, until they are finished and implemented.
Determining the non-compatibility of these theories (“The theory of the relation between the port and the cities” and the “Security of the ports facilities”) or finding a cohesion point where both theories can coexist is an important task that must be assumed.
All the agents involved must re-orientate their job in this kind of social projects, adding new security control systems on the converted spaces, because they are the principal economic sustentation in the urbanized areas of the port. The social development of countries could depend on this.