Port Security - A successful Development?

Project Report from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: keine, European College of Business and Management (ECBM) London, language: English, abstract: For centuries trading has been one of the most important elements of every country in the world. People profit from new sale markets for their domestic products and from a huge variety of products from other continents and countries. Trading stands for an increasing quality of living. The progress in globalisation causes an extending volume of trading. Nowadays about 90 percent of the whole world trade is covered by vessels . Without shipping the import and export of goods on the scale necessary for the modern world would not be possible. To prevent this part of the economy from terrorist attacks is the main task of modern port security.