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A Contribution to the Analysis of Maritime Accidents with Catastrophic Consequence

Maritime transport safety is being enhanced by introducing numerous technical measures, by building safer ships, developing new and more efficient methods of transportation, investing in human resources, increasing traffic surveillance and control, etc. Nevertheless, accident statistics show these measures are not sufficient, accidents with catastrophic consequences still happen. Environment had never been more vulnerable and it is only the question of time when the next accident will occur. Statistics of serious maritime accidents, especially those related to oil tankers that caused significant pollution to environment will be introduced in this paper. Besides the statistics, causes of accidents will be analyzed with emphasis on causes structure and changes in the course of time. Correlation between factors involved will be explained by comparing the traffic with accidents in certain periods. Also, impact of technical and technology development and quality of ships crew on accident will be analyzed. Safety measures that are to be introduced will be based on these factors with special accent on ships crews, investments in education and training and ship’ s crew working overload.

Maritime accidents; environment pollution; oil tankers; ship’ s crew

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