THE ROLE OF HUMAN FACTORS IN MANAGEMENT OF MARITIME TRANSPORT OPERATIONS

Kiril KOLEV
10/1/2011
Marine sciences and engineering;
Renewable energies; Marine renewable energies and Sustenability; Advanced
technologies for MET; Climate changes
Abstract
Although certain functions have been automated, a maritime transport is still largely a humancontrolled system. It is explained the tendency for objective assessment and management of interactions between work-place and environment and their affects on final results of maritime transport operations.
Keywords
role of human factors; management of maritime transport operations
Kiril KOLEV
Naval Academy “N. Y. Vaptsarov”, Varna, Bulgaria