International Journal of Applied Logistics, 2(1), 35-56, January-March 2011 35 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Keywords: Expert-Systems, Maritime Transportation, Port Security, Risk Management, Supply Chain Security, Trade Facilitation INTRODUCTION Until lately, transportation risk management has mostly dealt with either natural or accidental man-made disasters (Merrick, Dorp, Mazzuchi, Harrald, Spahn, & Grabowski, 2002) focusing therefore predominantly on incident prevention and consequence mitigation. 9/11 tragedy has made transportation opera- tors, as well as shippers and public authorities, Building an Expert-System for Maritime Container Security Risk Management Jaouad Boukachour, University of Le Havre, France Charles-Henri Fredouet, University of Le Havre, France Mame Bigué Gningue, University of Le Havre, France ABSTRACT Until lately, transportation risk management has mostly dealt with natural or man-made accidental disasters. The September 11th tragedy has made transportation operators, as well as shippers and public authorities, aware of a new type of risk, man-made and intentional. Securing global transportation networks has become an important concern for governments, practitioners and academics. In the current time-based competi- tion context, securing transportation operations should not be sought at the expense of time effectiveness in physical and informational flow processing. In this paper, the authors describe a project for the design of an expert-system dedicated to maritime container security risk management, present a literature review on decision-support systems dedicated to transportation risk management, and discuss the various steps of expertise modeling in a transportation risk management context. aware of a new type of risk, still man-made but this time intentional (Abkowitz, 2003). Securing the global transportation net- works has thus become an important concern for governments, practitioners and academics, and all the more so as: 1) Beyond terrorism-related risks, lie numer- ous other intentional man-made transporta- tion risks such as drug smuggling or tax avoidance: e.g., “South African ports face a relatively low risk of international ter- rorist attack, but high incidences of illegal DOI: 10.4018/jal.2011010103