Annual Canadian Commercial Vessel Safety Statistics

Monthly marine occurrence statistics from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada provide an annual summary of selected maritime safety data for commercial vessels. The TSB gathers this data during its investigations to analyze safety deficiencies and identify risks. An annual summary is produced and published as open information.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in commercial vessel incident frequency using monthly occurrence statistics.
• Identify common safety deficiencies in the Canadian maritime transportation system from investigation data.
• Assess annual risk patterns for commercial vessels from the published summary metrics.

Strengths

• Data is gathered by the official Transportation Safety Board of Canada during its investigations.
• Provides an annual summary published as open information.

Limitations

• Data excludes pleasure craft occurrences unless a commercial vessel is involved.
• Specific data volume (row count, column count) and temporal coverage are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada | Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada

Collection Method

Gathered by the TSB during the course of its safety investigations.

Time Range

Annual summaries; specific temporal coverage unknown.

Freshness

Updated monthly, with an annual summary; last platform update was 2026-03-06.

Geography

Canada