Building on the success of similar safety data programs, the Precursor Safety Data Program is developing SafeMTS, a collaboration with the USDOT's Maritime Administration that 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. SafeMTS helps all participants identify early warnings of safety problems and develop strategies to avoid more serious incidents.

Learn more

• Read the SafeMTS Report: Applying Large Language Models to Maritime Near-Miss Safety Data Analysis (January 2026). This publication presents findings from a pilot project exploring how advanced data science methods can help streamline processing and analysis of near-miss safety data.
• Read the SafeMTS Report on Pilot (December 2023).
• Learn more about BTS support to the commercial maritime industry by visiting the SafeMTS home page.