Safety of Transport and Disposal for Explosive Ordnance in Ports, Roadsteads and at Open Sea

Autor: Adam Cichocki, Miroslaw Chmielinski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: TransNav: International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 363-370 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2083-6473
2083-6481
DOI: 10.12716/1001.11.02.21
Popis: In the article principles, pertaining to the safety of transport for explosives and unexploded ordnance of military origin and procedures that guarantee maximal effectiveness of the process of their neutralization, are presented. Since the end of the 2nd World War operations of neutralizing unexploded ordnance (UXO) of that era that still lie in ports, roadsteads and coastal areas are continuously conducted. During that war the Polish coast was one of the major battlegrounds and till now unexploded ordnance are found either on the sea bed or along the coast. Various analyses state that searching the sea and the coastline for unexploded ordnance is a task still to be carried out in the foreseeable future.
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