During last year, there were 30 incidents
Marine Safety Forum has issued Information Note providing an annual summary of Marine Safety Reports during 2013.
Highlights
- Incident categories are consistent with the requirements of the MAIB and the British Port’s Association’s National Reporting System. This allows comparability of incident data between ports. Under the system incidents can be categorised as more than one type.
- There were30 incidents in 2013. This equates to 1.14 incidents per 1000 vessel movements.
- Incidents involvingpilot boarding and disembarkation, including problems with pilot ladder arrangements and rigging amount to six, or 20%, of the incidents.
- The incidents involving transfer/acceptance of control between bridge conning stations also amount to six, or 20%.
- Total movements is the sum of arrivals, departures, shifts and non-statistical movements in the reported year. In 2013 this amounted to 26,363 movements.
- The categories are as follows:
- Collision (contact between vessels moored or underway).
- Contact (contact between vessels and fixed objects and structures).
- Grounding.
- Near miss or misc.
- Fire, explosion, flooding.
- Pollution.
- Person overboard.
- Other on board incident.
- Machinery failure, mechanically disabled or hull failure.
- Capsized, sinking or listing.
- Accidents resulting in injury, or worse, to Boards staff or port users whilst vessels are underway within the waters of the port.
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Summary of Incident Categories in 2013
Summary of Incident Causes in 2013
Incident Types in 2013
Figure 1, Incident Types in 2013
Incident Causes in 2013
Figure 2, Incident Causes in 2013
View incident details by reading the full report – Annual Summary of Marine Safety Reports 2013