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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
determining where additional safety improvement is needed.

At the end of January 2024, 13 of the 21 bulk carrier losses in this
analysis had investigation reports made available on IMO’s GISIS
(Global Integrated Shipping Information System) database. That
represents 61.9% of the total.

The average time from an incident to a report becoming available
on GISIS has been 26.2 months for these investigations, with the
shortest 7 months and the longest 44 months.

The following analysis shows those casualties that have been
reported 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 37.0
Bahamas 1 1 7.0
China 2 2
Cyprus 1 1 42.0
Hong Kong, China 1 1 44.0
Indonesia 1 1 27.0
Liberia 1 1 33.0
Marshall Islands 2 2 23.0
Mexico 1 1 38.0
Panama 9 4 24.3 5
Tuvalu 1 1
Total 21 13 26.2 8

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

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