ISPS CODE : SOLAS CHAPTER 11.2 SAFETY MEASURE ENHANCE TO MARITIME SECURITY

 Safety measures enhance to maritime security
ISPS code

Objectives of Ism code:

•  To discover the security threats and take preventive action against the security threats.
• And proper preventive measures are placed 
• Early and efficiently collecting the security level information, and share  the security information.

Three levels of ism code 

Level 1:

•  Minimum appropriate preventive security measures for all the time.

Level 2:

•  Additional protective preventive security measures for period of time.

Level 3:

•   Level 3 is High level protective preventive security measures for limited time.

Level 1:

•  Deck over lightings.
• Crew photo identification 
• Visitors should be identified
• Regular patrolling will carried out.
• rooms which is not in use should be closed and locked by key.
• Certain area should be closed and locked by key

Level 2 

•  In additional to level 1
• Oscillation search will carried out.
• Shore Delivery should be checked properly.
• Visitors will strictly assist.
• Cargo seals should be checked.
• Visitors are restricted to ecr and bridge.
• All crews aware of bomb alert

Level 3:

•  In additional to level 1 and level 2
• Gangway should be lifted.
• Cargo operations can stop with special permission.
• Tight patrolling will carried out.
• Very high level security.
• Crews aware of situation.