A STUDY OF THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY

ABSTRACT
Over the years there have been stories of notorious oil spillages in the Niger Delta regions of the country, deposition of deadly industrial wastes into the seas at Lagos Lagoons and beaches, deposition of Biological and medical wastes in the Nigerian sea borders etc. which have led to death of sea and land animals including man in most cases as well as other environmental hazards; yet the perpetrators’ of such dastardly acts are most times not apprehended or adequately punished. 
Such situations and occurrence as described above has high degree adverse effect on nature generally either on short term or long term basis.  Therefore prevention of such situations from occurring is best advocated for instead of control and management.  It is to this extent that only high technological expert systems such as Maritime information systems with accurate data processing, storage, retrieval and simulation as well as precise results and outputs can be used in effective protection of the Maritime environment and prevention of pollution occurrence in the country.      The research design employed in this work was a survey descriptive type in which means, frequency and percentages all in a tabular format were used in the analysis of data gathered from the respondents encountered in the process. The respondents used in the study were made up of 15 senior staffs and 33 junior staffs gathered from 5 departments of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Lagos.
TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLE CHAPTER ONE  1.0INTRODUCTION  1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY  1.2STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM  1.3PURPOSE OF THE STUDY  1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY  1.5RESEARCH QUESTIONS  1.6SCOPE OF THE STUDY 1.7LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 1.8DEFINITION OF TERMS 
CHAPTER TWO  REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE CONCEPTUAL REVIEW: INFORMATION SYSTEM AND MARITIME INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.1. INFORMATION SYSTEM 2.2 INTER-RELATIONSHIPS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS FIELDS OF ENDEAVOUR 2.3 TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.4 COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.5 INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 2.6 MARINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MARIS) 2.7 ROLES OF MARITIME INFORMATION SYSTEM IN COASTAL PROTECTION 2.8 INTEGRATION OF MARITIME INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN POLLUTION PREVENTION MARINE POLLUTION AND PREVENTION IN NIGERIA 2.9 MARINE POLLUTION 2.9.1 TYPES AND MAJOR GLOBAL OF MARINE POLLUTION 2.9.2 MAJOR MARINE POLLUTANTS - METALS 2.9.3 MAJOR MARINE POLLUTANTS- SOLID WASTE 2.9.4 MAJOR MARINE POLLUTANTS - BIOLOGICAL 2.9.5 SOURCES OF POLLUTION FROM LAND 2.9.6 SOURCES OF MARINE POLLUTION IN NIGERIA 2.9.7 IMPACTS OF MARINE POLLUTION 2.9.8 COST OF MARINE POLLUTION 2.10 SOLUTIONS TO POLLUTION REFERENCE
CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY 3.1RESEARCH DESIGN  3.2 POPULATION  3.3 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION  3.4 METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH INSTRUMENT  3.5 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS   CHAPTER FOUR DATA PRESENTATION AND RESULTS  4.1 RESEARCH QUESTION ONE  4.1RESEARCH QUESTION TWO  4.2RESEARCH QUESTION THREE  4.3SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 
CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 CONCLUSION 5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS  BIBLIOGRAPHY QUESTIONNAIRE