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Flag state performance - report of

investigation submitted to IMO’s GISIS

Lessons learnt from past incidents play an important role in determin-
ing where additional safety improvement is needed.

At the end of January 2023, 19 of the 26 bulk carrier losses in this anal-

ysis had investigation reports made available on IMO’s GISIS (Glob-
al Integrated Shipping Information System) database. That represents
73.1% of the total.

The average time from an incident to a report becoming available on
GISIS has been 28.2 months for these investigations, with the short-
est 7 months and the longest 52.5 months.

The following analysis shows those casualties that have been report-
ed by flag states and appear on the IMO GISIS database.

Flag No. of cases GISIS with reports Average months* GISIS without report
Australia 1 1 37
Bahamas 1 1 7
China 1 1
Cyprus 1 1 42
Hong Kong, China 2 2 35.5
Indonesia 1 1 27
Liberia 2 2 52.5
Malta 1 1 44
Marshall Islands 2 2 23
Mexico 1 1 38.0
Panama 12 7 16.9 5
Tuvalu 1 1
Total 26 19 28.2 7

*Average number of months from the incident date to the date of the reports shown on
GISIS

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