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Lessons to be drawn from identifying hotspots for casualty incidents and type in previous years
SINGAPORE. (Jan 29, 2015) – Shipping safety remains an ever present issue at the start of 2015 as industry regulators make louder calls to investigate a range of incident types and improve safety standards. According to the latest data from IHS (NYSE: IHS), a leading global provider of critical information and insight, a total of 1,639 maritime casualty incidents were reported during 2014, a 10 percent increase from 2013 when 1,489 incidents were reported.
The chart below shows the numbers of incident types that has occurred for 2013 and 2014 across all incident categories worldwide.
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