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Title
Tanker grounding frequency and spills in the Finnish Gulf of Finland

ISSN printed: 1733-8670, ISSN on-line: 2392-0378
Sormunen, Otto-Ville Edvard1; Hänninen, Maria2; Häkkinen, Jani3; Posti, Antti4
URI: http://repository.scientific-journals.eu/handle/123456789/771
2015-09-10
Groundings and ship collisions are the two most frequent accident types in the Gulf of Finland, which in the past decades has seen an increase in tanker traffic. This has mainly been oil transport from Russia. Both accident types pose a major hazard to the marine ecosystem, as spills of catastrophic magnitude can occur as a consequence. In order to better plan for the response to and/or prevention of accidents, the frequency and size of spills should be known. This paper estimates the expected number of tanker groundings of different tanker types for the busiest tanker ports in the Finnish part of the Gulf of Finland. Furthermore, in this paper statistics of the sizes of chemical, gas and oil tankers visiting Finnish ports is presented. Finally, the expected number and size of spills is estimated based on the expected number of groundings and the tanker sizes using a spill model based on tanker deadweight (DWT).
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Title

Tanker grounding frequency and spills in the Finnish Gulf of Finland

Pages

108-114

Figures

4

Tables

6

ISSN printed

1733-8670

ISSN on-line

2392-0378

DOI

10.17402/045

Type

Review article

Journal

43 Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin, no. 43 / 2015

Publisher

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Copyright Holder

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Published

2015-09-10

Recieved

2015-07-15

Accepted

2015-08-09

Funding

This paper was carried out as a part of the TEKES and EU-funded CHEMBALTIC project in cooperation with Merikotka, NesteOil, Vopak, Port of HaminaKotka, FTA, Finnish Port Association and Finnish Shipowners’ Association. The authors wish to express their gratitude to the funders.

Keywords

transport, tankers, maritime safety, groundings, spills, statistics

URI:

http://repository.scientific-journals.eu/handle/123456789/771

Language

English

Authors

Sormunen, Otto-Ville Edvard1; Hänninen, Maria2; Häkkinen, Jani3; Posti, Antti4

Affiliation

1 Department of Applied Mechanics, Aalto University School of Engineering 1A Tietotie, 02150 Espoo, Finland Kotka Maritime Research Association (Merikotka), 7 Heikinkatu, 48100 Kotka, Finland, otto.sormunen@aalto.fi
2 Department of Applied Mechanics, Aalto University School of Engineering 1A Tietotie, 02150 Espoo, Finland Kotka Maritime Research Association (Merikotka), 7 Heikinkatu, 48100 Kotka, Finland, maria.hanninen@aalto.fi
3 Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) 34A Mechelininkatu, Helsinki, Finland, jani.hakkinen@ymparisto.fi
4 University of Turku, FI-20014 TURUN YLIOPISTO, Finland Kotka Maritime Research Association (Merikotka), 7 Heikinkatu, 48100 Kotka, Finland, antti.posti@gmail.com

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