Contemporary Container Security

Girish Gujar is a visiting lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He is an ex-marine chief engineer with over a decade long sea faring experiences on board various kinds of ships. Also, he has extensive experience in the logistics industry having worked in India, Middle East and Europe for 15 years.Adolf K.Y. Ng is Professor of Transport and Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also an Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management, Senior Editor of the European Journal of International Management, and an editorial board member of several reputable scholarly journals in transport and logistics. Zaili Yang is Professor of Maritime Transport at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is a member of editorial boards of seven international journals and has also served as a member of review boards for national research councils of USA, UK, Norway, and China. He has won several awards for his research work.

• 1. The Criticality of Container Security.- 2. The Legal Regimes in Container Security.- 3. Container Security at Sea and in Ports.- 4. A Methodology to Prioritize Security Vulnerabilities in Ports.- 5. Advanced Approach for Rationalizing Port Security Inspection and Auditing Practice.- 6. Container Security at Dry Ports.- 7. Proposed Alterations in Legal Regimes.- 8. The Issue of Deploying Technology.- 9. Critical Issues in Sea-Air Transport Security.- 10. The Need for a Global Strategy.