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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326758/number-of-oil-tankers-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326758/number-of-oil-ta...: There were 8,883 o
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326758/number-of-oil-tankers-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326758/number-of-oil-ta...: There were 8,883 oil tankers worldwide in 2021.
If those are all ocean-going, ten a year is about 1.1%. Depending on how expensive it would be to prevent this, that may not be bad for ship owners, but it is very bad for those seeking a career in working on those ships.
- calderknight 4y ago1.1% of what?
- rhn_mk1 4y agoOf ocean-going oil tankers.
- calderknight 4y agoIt's ~0.11% of those
- goatlover 4y agoRelative to what other transportation profession, though? Pilots, truck drivers, train operators? All of them have deadly accidents.
- lamontcg 4y agoplus 5,589 containerships https://www.statista.com/statistics/198227/forecast-for-global-number-of-containerships-from-2011/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/198227/forecast-for-glob... although the parent comment mentioned "longer than 200m" but its difficult to find containership stats by length rather than by TEU. ignoring that though it would be 0.07% lost per year or 1 out of every 1447. probably not too surprising, since if you pick 1447 oil tankers/containerships and audit them consider what the worst looking one is going to look like after decades of salt damage and abuse and poor maintenance.