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Confidential reporting and analysis of near-miss events
for a safer maritime transportation system

The Safe Maritime Transportation System (SafeMTS) empowers industry to voluntarily and confidentially share information about near-miss events, which include narrowly avoided collisions or other accidents that could have occurred but did not. A partnership among the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and industry, SafeMTS helps all participants identify early warnings of safety problems and develop strategies to avoid more serious incidents.


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SafeMTS Spotlight


Bureau of Transportation Statistics releases SafeMTS Report on the Pilot

The SafeMTS team recently released a report describing the results of the program’s pilot phase, which tested the feasibility of establishing a near-miss reporting program for the U.S. maritime industry.

The report includes an evaluation and summary of the pilot dataset, which comprises 7,222 near-miss and hazard recognition events occurring between 2020 and 2022 from seven participating maritime companies. The information presented in this report is an illustration of analytics to be developed for the full program.

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