The Present and Expected Changes in Maritime Safety, Security and Defense Functions

Maritime safety is the safety of life and property at sea from the environmental and operational threats, as well as the safety of maritime environment from pollution by the ships. On the national level the maritime safety is being achieved as the result of the existing maritime safety legal framework; operating the global and regional navigational infrastructure, but mainly as the result of operation of the highly specialized maritime operational services. Each maritime country possess not less then 10 different kinds of maritime operational services. Most important of them are the following: