ABSTRACT

Ship-ship collisions are rare events that potentially might have disastrous impact on the environment, human life and economics. To find effective risk mitigating measures the risk must be reliably assessed. Proper assessment of the ship-ship collision risk requires understanding on the complicated chain of events. Simplifying assumptions on certain parameters are necessary as the research in this field is not comprehensive. Especially, the important link between the encounter of the colliding vessels and the actual moment of impact contain obvious uncertainties.