연안여객선 안전관리법제에 관한 일고찰

Abstract

The prevention of the incident of coastal passenger ships is most important because the incidents of coastal passenger ships may cause tremendous loss of lives. The government of Korea has been trying to prevent recurrence of such incident through amending and improving the laws and systems in relation to the safety of coastal passenger ships. These include the amendment and improvement of laws and systems related with the ship's equipment and hull for maintaining the seaworthiness, the education, training and etc. of seamen for enhancing the quality and quantity of seamen, and the safety management system of coastal passenger ship for improving the system. In this sense, this paper tries to contribute to the enhancement of the safety of coastal passenger ship by way of suggesting the reformation points in relation with the problems identified by studying the laws and systems for the safety of coastal passenger ships. Through it all, this paper suggests the problems and its improvements regarding the irrelevance of the Marine Transportation Act as the safety management law of coastal passenger ship, the irrelevance of the classification of passenger ships, the improperness for the extension of limitation of ship's age for safe operation of coastal passenger ship, the confusion of the safety management authority and the minor problems regarding the concept of passenger ship, the quality enhancement of seamen, the prevention of overloading, the notification of safety concern to passenger and etc..