Impact of ship age on tanker accidents

Papanikolaou, A; Eliopoulou, E

dc.contributor.author	Papanikolaou, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Eliopoulou, E	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:51:43Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:51:43Z
dc.date.issued	2008	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/35608
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dc.subject	Impact of ship's age on accidents	en
dc.subject	Marine pollution	en
dc.subject	Tanker accident rates	en
dc.subject	Tanker hull design	en
dc.subject.other	Accident rate	en
dc.subject.other	Building quality	en
dc.subject.other	Comprehensive analysis	en
dc.subject.other	Hull designs	en
dc.subject.other	Impact of ship's age on accidents	en
dc.subject.other	Major accidents	en
dc.subject.other	Ship accidents	en
dc.subject.other	Structural failure	en
dc.subject.other	Tanker accident rates	en
dc.subject.other	Design	en
dc.subject.other	Ferry boats	en
dc.subject.other	Fracture mechanics	en
dc.subject.other	Marine engineering	en
dc.subject.other	Marine pollution	en
dc.subject.other	Oceanography	en
dc.subject.other	Quality assurance	en
dc.subject.other	Structural analysis	en
dc.subject.other	Structural integrity	en
dc.subject.other	Tankers (ships)	en
dc.subject.other	Accidents	en
dc.title	Impact of ship age on tanker accidents	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.publicationDate	2008	en
heal.abstract	There is a strong general believe that ship accidents and particularly tanker accidents leading to marine pollution are mainly related to ship's age, namely the older the ship the more likely her involvement in at least non-accidental structural failure accidents. The paper presents results of a comprehensive analysis of recorded large tanker accidents of DWT greater than 60,000 that occurred in the period between 1990 and 2007. The analysis enables the identification of clear trends with respect to the accident rates per shipyear for all major accident categories. It also relates the impact of ship's hull design, namely of the double hull and the various non-double hull configurations, as well as the impact of ship's age on non-accidental structural failure accidents. Results of the latter analysis were partly unexpected, showing that more than ship's age, the actual condition of ship's structure in terms of maintenance and building quality are the decisive factors for non accidental structural failure accidents.	en
heal.journalName	2nd International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics 2008	en
dc.identifier.spage	103	en
dc.identifier.epage	110	en