Navigation hot spots - top 10 regions for groundings
For the five years 2016 to 2020.
|
Rank |
Geographical location |
Rate of groundings per 100 sailing days |
|
1 |
St. Lawrence River - Great Lakes |
10.9% |
|
2 |
Parana River |
2.2% |
|
3 |
Suez Canal |
1.6% |
|
4 |
Dover Straits/English Channel |
1.4% |
|
5 |
North Sea and Baltic |
1.3% |
|
6 |
Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara |
1.3% |
|
7 |
Mississippi River |
0.5% |
|
8 |
Chittagong (Bangladesh) |
0.2% |
|
9 |
Hong Kong to Taiwan Strait |
0.2% |
|
10 |
Tokyo to Osaka Bay |
0.1% |
Sources: Lloyd’s List Intelligence Casualties Data 2016-2020; Windward Predictive Intelligence Platform.