Affiliation(s)
1. Department of Maritime Management Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
2. Department of Transport Management Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria
3. Department of Maritime Transport and Logistics, Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Warri, Delta State Nigeria
4. Department of Maritime Transport, Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The study assessed the risk of exposure of shore-based and ship-based
maritime workers to the spread of covid-19 pandemic by estimating the level of
human-infective covid-19 pathogen-hosts to which the maritime workers are
exposed per square kilometer of travel to-and-fro the ports; in the course of
their routine travel interactions between the urban cum sub-urban built
environments and the seaports as the domain, base and major host of most
maritime operators. With the aim of providing knowledge to achieve the
objective of flattening the curve of transmission of covid-19 between the
maritime sector and other build environment types; the study identified the
urban centers and the suburbs in the port cities comprising the Western,
Eastern and Delta ports in Lagos, Warri and Onne/Port-Harcourt respectively as
the covid-19 hotspots in each maritime region in Nigeria. It used the proximity
model to analyze secondary data on confirmed covid-19 cases in each city to
estimate the risk of exposure of maritime workers in each port zone to the
spread of the covid-19 pandemic based on the proximity of the maritime port
zones to the urban centers and the suburbs as covid-19 hotspots. It developed
an exposure risk matrix for the Nigeria maritime industry as health safety guide
for maritime workers in the course of their travel interaction from the port
to-and-fro the city centers and sub-urban built environments.
KEYWORDS
Maritime-workers, exposure, covid-19, health, safety.
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