Navigation hot spots - number of incidents in each geographic area
Incidents registered during the five year period 2016 to 2020.
|
Rank |
Geographical location |
Number of incidents |
|
1 |
Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara |
255 |
|
2 |
Dover Strait / English Channel |
232 |
|
3 |
St. Lawrence River - Great Lakes |
229 |
|
4 |
North Sea and Baltic |
174 |
|
5 |
Parana River |
92 |
|
6 |
Singapore and Malacca Strait |
66 |
|
7 |
Chittagong (Bangladesh) |
64 |
|
8 |
Tokyo to Osaka bay |
61 |
|
9 |
Suez Canal |
42 |
|
10 |
Mississippi River |
31 |
|
11 |
Strait of Hormuz |
29 |
|
12 |
Ningbo and Shanghai |
28 |
|
13 |
Hong Kong to Taiwan Strait |
18 |
Sources: Lloyd’s List Intelligence Casualties Data 2016-2020