Fig. 1 shows that 82% of the accidents in the database involved the following ship types: General Cargo ships (31%), Bulk Carriers (21%), Ro-Ro Ferries (19%) and Tankers(9%). The remaining ship types (i.e., Container ships, Cruise ships, Ro-Ro Cargo, Pure Car Carriers and Gas Carriers) each comprise about 3–5% of the accident database.