In the 2014 number of losses totals of great ships it is come down to the level more low of last the ten years



In the 2014 total of 75 great ships, number has happened all over the world the loss that is pairs to a third party in less (- 32%) regarding the 110 losses of the year precedence, that it in the past decade represents the level more low recorded and that is clearly inferior respect to an average decennial of 127 losses totals of great ships. It evidences the third edition of "Safety and Shipping Review 2015", the relationship elaborated from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty IF (AGCS), the center of specific competences of the insurance group Allianz.

The relationship, that it examines the losses totals of ships of tonnage at least 100 tons, emphasizes moreover that the losses totals of great ships are diminished of 50% from 2005, graces partially to a more effective normative picture.

Last year more than a third party of the losses totals they have happened in two regions: in waters of southern China and the Asian south-east, where 17 incidents have happened, and in those of Japan, Korea and northern China, where 12 are recorded some. If in these two regions the number of losses totals has turned out however down regarding 2013, in the British islands and surrounding waters the number is doubled going up to six losses totals.

The greater number of losses totals has regarded the conventional ships for goods, with a total of 25 losses in 2014, continuations from the fishings boat with 14 losses.

Also last year the main cause of the losses totals of ships has been the shipwreck (sinkings/submersions), that it has regarded 49 incidents regarding 69 in 2013, followed from the silting up, been necessary to 13 ships regarding 20 in 2013, and from single fires or explosions with four incidents regarding 15 in 2013.

The precise relationship of AGCS that altogether, included the losses totals, in the 2014 have happened 2,773 marine incidents (the relationship precedence of indicated 2,596 happened in 2013). The area with the greater number of incidents has been, as in 2013, that of the Mediterranean oriental and the Black Sea with 490 lefts (+5% on 2013), continuation from that of the British islands, the Sea of the North, the English Channel and the Gulf of Biscaglia with 465 incidents (+29%).

The relationship observes moreover that, if the tendency to the decrease in the losses totals is encouraging, the recent incidents as those been necessary to the Sewol and to Norman Atlantic they have newly brought back the attention and the worries on safety of the fleeting ships. Last year total of seven fleeting ships has happened the loss, figure that represents almost 10% of the losses totals. "In many cases - Sven Gerhard, global has asserted product Hull leader & Marine Liabilities of AGCS - the structure of the ship is not the only weakness. These two incidents evidence a worrisome gap in the preparation of the crew with regard to the operations of emergency in the ferries ro-ro or the fleeting ships".

The relationship emphasizes that the tendency to having an always inferior number of members of the crew means to ask the marine workers to make more with less resources and that the levels minimums of crew reduce the possibility to form the staff on board, activity that could instead supply the most important contribution.

The document written up from AGCS examines also recent the new phenomenon of gigantism of the portacontainer. Larger ships - Gerhard has explained - can also mean greater losses. The field - it has specified - must be prepared in future for losses of beyond a billion of dollars relatively to container vessels or floating systems offshore. "For us - it has specified - the exposure constitutes a worry is not relatively to a loss total, but also to a partial loss or other lefts. A damage to the cars or the income of water means that it will be necessary to disembark the cargo: but where they are the infrastructures that allow to make it, how much will want to us and how much will cost" According to Rahul Khanna, global head Marine Risk Consulting of AGCS, "the marine field must think carefully and over a long time span before to complete the step towards larger ships".