Recent Advances in Ship Collision and Grounding

Dear Colleagues,

At the same time, significant societal changes can be anticipated in the medium term, as the global economy becomes obviously affected by global warming, related need for reduction of CO₂ and other emissions, pandemic, shortage of resources, inflationary trends, and other drivers. This already is and will further affect the future of shipping and shipbuilding.

With the increasing application of the new marine transport technologies, new transportation routes, development of new analytical tools, and recognition of new risks in growing orientation to the exploration of ocean resources, inevitably ship collision and grounding research will have to continue providing support to the contemporary challenges.

While existing tools and methods for the analysis of ship collision and grounding risks and consequences are being developed already for some time, a need for a summary of recent advances and forthcoming research topics arise: how will ammonia and/or hydrogen large scale application in shipping affect risks of accidents, how to cope with the problems related to autonomous ships and shipping, how to use big data analytics efficiently in risk prevention, is there an increasing need for approaches that can handle ship collision with other marine structures such as floating bridges and offshore wind turbines – these are some of the questions in front of contemporary research.

The present Special Issue aims to address the mentioned topics and provide insight into recent advances in research related to prevention and understanding of most severe marine accidents: collisions and grounding of the ships.

Dr. Smiljko Rudan
Dr. Mihkel Kõrgesaar
Guest Editors

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