Ship Accidents

ABSTRACTSafety may be defined as an acceptable state of risk by society. In this respect, for assessing the current safety train of ships, it is necessary to quantify the risk take aim of the operating world fleet, thus estimate and assess the basic contributors to risk, viz. the frequency of maritime accidents and the extent of their consequences.As this paper deals with a organized analysis of ship accidents in recent years and evaluates the current level of safety for the majority of ship subtypes present in the world fleet, namely, tankers, intensity carriers, containerships passenger and cruise ships, passenger Ro-Ro burden vessels, Ro-Ro cargo ships, general cargo vessels, reefer ships, car carriers, fishing vessels, LNG and LPG carriers.IntroductionThe history of maritime lift is marked by ship accidents with partly foreboding(a) consequences on military man lives and impact on society and the marine environment. In response to these disastrous accidents, more and mor e new requirements and amendments of existing regulations for the safe maritime imparting were introduced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as this paper gives an overview of the world-wide safety level of all basic merchant ship types in terms of accidents occurrence, frequencies and consequences.For each ship type, accidents occurred within the time decimal point 1990-2012 atomic number 18 presented and analyzed with respect to the degree of accident severity, accident category and accidents geographical area, number of fatalities and total losses of ships. Furthermore, the total accident frequency and frequencies per principal(prenominal) accident categories are given as well as comparative degree results among the different ship types.The ultimate goal of this investigation is the assessment of the coitus safety level per ship type in order to grade those ship types that are more prone to marine accidents (per ship type), realistic historical trends, and geographical areas, where accidents more often happen. Frequencies and basic consequences were investigated for the entire period of interest (i.e. 2012), as well as separately for the last decennium of the studied period.The source of the analyzed accidental selective information is the IHS Sea-web database and the analysis pertains to the generic wine ship types as defined by the particular database namely, Bulk carriers, rider and Cruise ships, Passenger Ro-Ro cargo vessels, Ro-Ro cargo ships, General Cargo vessels, join ships, Car carriers, Fishing vessels, LNG and LPG carriers.The analysis of accident records was performed for the time period 1990-2012 we include those accidents associated with merchant passenger and cargo ships, regardless ship size, however create after 1980. Operational fleet at risk has been calculated from the Lloyds prove of Shipping database for all the afore-mentioned ship types.The output of the particular calculations was compared with correspond ing data from Clarksons SIN and a rather good fit of the respective results was recorded.The presented results link up to Cellular Containerships and Large Crude Oil tankers (greater than 60,000 DWT) are coming from 2 earlier completed research projects of NTUA, namely CONTIOPT (2011-2013) and SAFEDOR (2005-2009), as well as from internal NTUA research (Eliopoulou et al. 2012, 2013).