Trends in operational occurrence types

Since 2020, 9.5% of all marine incidents reported shortfalls in the operation of the vessel. 

Since 2020, vessel control and navigation issues accounted for 28.3% (306) of all Operational related incidents. This is followed by cargo handling issues resulting in 26.1% (283) and maintenance resulting in 19.5% (211) of Operational related incidents (Figure 30).

In 2022, cargo handling and stores (80) for the first time surpassed vessel control and navigational (78) issues.

Figure 31 shows the most frequent issues associated with the operational occurrences for 2022. 42.5% (34) of the cargo handling incidents occurred during loading and unloading. 44.9% (35) of vessel control and navigation incidents occurred during berthing and unberthing and mooring operations and 58.9% (33) of operational access incidents occurred while climbing or descending ladders or stairs.