MARINE CASUALTY ANALYSIS OF BUNKER TANKERS BETWEEN 1966 AND 2017

Marine casualties are very critical issues for both maritime sector and the world. Due to generally large impact of marine casualties, there may be seen serious mortality, loss of property and financial, and environmental problems. The ships which are tanker type have more impact and dangerous on marine casualties because of due to the characteristics of the cargo that they carry. Bunker tankers, which are a type of tankers, are in close operation with the vessels when they serve their services. For this reason, the possibility of involved in a marine casualty of these ships is higher. In this paper, it was aimed to analyzed bunker tanker casualties, circumstances and their results. 204 bunker tanker casualty reports occuring between 1966 and 2017 were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0 package.

These reports were provided Information Handling Services (IHS) Markit Maritime Portal. According to analysis results, the most common types of casualties were determined as collision (32.8 %), hull and machinery damage (27.0 %) and wrecked/stranded (22.1 %), respectively. In addition, casualty involving injury or death and environmental pollution rates were found low, while almost half of the casualty reports were reported as serious.