The present paper outlines the current status of work of the EU funded, FP7 project GOALDS (Goal Based Damaged Stability, 2009-2012), which aims at addressing shortcomings of SOLAS 2009 with respect to the survivability assessment of passenger ships by state of the art scientific methods, formulating a rational, risk-based regulatory framework, properly accounting for the damage stability properties of passenger ships. The paper is herein focusing on the presentation of project results regarding
the update of statistics of collision and grounding damages and the conclusions on the way ahead in this respect.
