CONCLUSION
It is shown in this research that there is no correlation
between the ship traffic density and the grounding
accidents, while there is slight correlation between the
grounding accident and the traffic distributiveness.
The results are based on the historical grounding
accidents that took place in the Gulf of Finland within
the years 1989‐2010 and the ship traffic of the same
area in 2010. Thus, it is worth to highlight again that
the obtained results are only valid for the studied