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1 INTRODUCTION

EMSA was set up as a regulatory agency that would

provide a major source of support to the European

Commission and the member states in the field of

maritime safety, security and prevention of pollution

from ships. The Agency was established by

Regulation

and implementation of EU legislation on maritime

safety, pollution by ships and maritime security. It has

also been given operational tasks in the field of oil

pollution response, vessel monitoring and in long-

range identification tracking of vessels. Every year

EMSA is collecting reports and data about incidents

which: involve ships flying a flag of one of the

European Union Member State; occur within EU

Member States’ territorial waters as defined in

UCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of

the Sea); or involve other substantial interests of EU

(pic.1) below shows simplified model of ship’s

accident report made with EMCIP. Thanks to use of

very simple structure, report is easy to do. According

to last annual report about 60% of incidents is

reported by shore authorities, 23% of reports come

from companies and about 12% from ships. As

statistics show during last 5 years their total amount is

similar every year and stays on the level of around

3000 reports per year.

DMAIB is in charge of investigation of accidents

ABSTRACT: Work shortly analyses statistics of maritime casualties registered by European Maritime Safety

Agency (EMSA) for years 2014-2019 and gives short description of chosen collisions that took place in last ten

years. Article points out main causes of navigational accidents and the need to keep improving navigators skills

and operation of systems available on board to minimalize risk of collision or grounding due to human error. In

this work very small sample is presented and author mainly focuses on European waters and incidents