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  • Fire Broke Out on MOL Comfort’s Fore Part

    8 July 2013

    The salvors of MOL Comfort have encountered another obstacle in their effort to recover the remaining fore part of the vessel, after its stern part sank in heavy seas on June 27. Namely, as MOL reported on Saturday, July 6, a fire had broken out on the towed fore part of the vessel at around […]

  • Resolve Salvage and Fire Hires Seamec’s Revelation Vessel

    24 November 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Seamec has entered into a charter contract for the ‘Revelation’ vessel with Resolve Salvage and Fire (Asia). Under the contract, the vessel, with a length of 80 meters and a beam of 13 meters, will carry out work on the west coast of India. The multi-role/accommodation vessel joined Seamec’s fleet in March 2015. Revelation is scheduled to […]

  • Fire Erupts on Philippine RoRo Ship

    11 July 2019

    A Philippine roll-on/roll-off vessel caught fire while docked in Cebu.

  • Dutra Secures Fire Island Contract

    23 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Dutra Group, San Rafael, California, was awarded a $47.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to stabilize Fire Island by placing 2,500,000 cubic yards of sand for initial construction of the Smith Point County Park reach of the Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point project area. Dutra Group, made up of three distinct but integrated companies, Dutra […]

  • Fire at IFA1 interconnector UK site

    15 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The UK National Grid today, 15 September, reported a fire at its IFA1 interconnector site in Sellindge, Kent, which has been evacuated.

  • Two Indian Seafarers Killed in Fire

    7 March 2016

    Two Indian sailors have died in a fire that broke out on board the Al Sadaa tanker in Yemen, according to India’s Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj. As informed, three more seafarers, also all of Indian nationality have been injured in the incident. “The three sailors injured in Yemen are all Indians. They are […]

  • Tanker Fire Under Control in Gadani

    16 July 2018

    A fire which broke out on board a tanker at a shipbreaking yard in Gadani has been put under control.

  • Boxship Catches Fire off Singapore

    31 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    A 9,092 TEU containership caught fire on August 23, while it was en route to Singapore. 

  • Brazil: Petrobras FPSO catches fire

    9 February 2018
    Infrastructure

    A fire broke out in the engine room of the P-32 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operated by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras on Thursday, February 8.

  • Freighter Catches Fire in Iskedrun Port

    15 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    1978-built, 2937 dwt  general cargo vessel Retaj caught fire while docked in Turkey’s Mediterranean Port of Iskedrun, January 14, Haber Turk reports. The fire reportedly spread across the entire Togo-flagged ship. Local firefighters are currently on scene and are trying to contain the fire. Turkey’s Minister for Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Lutfi Elvan told Haber Turk […]

  • Product Tanker on Fire in Veracruz Shipyard

    22 February 2016

    The firefighters managed to contain a fire aboard a 45,705 dwt product tanker Nuevo Pemex IV which started in the morning hours on Saturday while the vessel was being dismantled in a Veracruz shipyard in Mexico, according to the Talleres Navales del Golfo shipyard. The 1989-built vessel, which was being taken to pieces, ignited during cutting works in the engine room, the shipyard […]

  • Fire Erupts in Venezia Porto Marghera

    23 June 2016

    Venetian firefighters were called to intervene after a fifteen-meter-high crane caught fire in the port area of Porto Marghera at around 9:30 PM local time Wednesday, according to the Department of firefighters, public rescue and civil defense. The fire quickly engulfed the crane, however, the operator managed to escape unharmed. The crane was offloading a Panamanian vessel […]

  • OSV Catches Fire off Mumbai

    1 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Twenty-eight crew members from an offshore supply vessel were evacuated, with five remaining on board to fight and monitor a major fire that broke out in the vessel’s engine room some 200 kilometers west of Mumbai on Sunday afternoon local time, the Indian Coast Guard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) reports. None of the crew members suffered any […]

  • Fire Island Beach Works Completed

    17 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Robbins Rest Coastline Resiliency Project which is aimed to reduce significant coastal erosion threat on Fire Island has been completed now. According to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the contractors have completed all emergency repairs of Robbins Rest on Fire Island. The work on the project that will address coastal erosion and improve coastal resiliency in the area began in […]

  • Fire breaks out on ship at docks

    19 April 2007

    A mechanical digger burst into flames as it unloaded cargo from a ship’s hold at Immingham docks. Firefighters were called to the bulk carrier Suchada Naree early on Thursday as the fire threatened to spread to the ship’s cargo of animal feed. A Humberside Fire Service spokeswoman said officers used thermal imaging cameras as they […]

  • Fire Hits Petrobras FPSO, No Injuries

    18 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on board Petrobras-operated floating oil production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) P-48 on Thursday located in the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos Basin, Brazil, the oil workers’ union Sindipetro-NF informed. The union said that the fire was quickly contained and that the UMS City Quissamã maintenance and security unit which was linked to P-48 was […]

  • UK opens second carbon storage licensing round

    9 December 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Storage, Transition, Vision

    The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has opened its second carbon storage licensing round, offering 14 locations offshore Scotland and England for exploration and appraisal, with the stores offering up to 2 gigatons of additional CO2 storage capacity. The round, opened today, December 9, offers areas that fall into two broad categories, including depleted hydrocarbon fields selected by the NSTA, […]

  • TGS scores first OBN gig for 2026 in European waters

    5 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has opened the contracting season in Europe for next year with an ocean bottom node (OBN) survey deal.

  • Car Carrier on Fire in Port of Antwerp

    20 October 2016

    The Antwerp fire department is currently cooling the 1989-built car carrier Silver Sky which burst into flames around 00.30 am last night, the spokeswoman of the Antwerp fire brigade told World Maritime News. She added that the temperature on board is still too high to enter the ship, so the damage caused by the fire is not yet determined. All 24 crew […]

  • Man rescued after fire on yacht

    7 October 2007

    A lone sailor was rescued by a passing vessel when his yacht caught fire off the Aberdeenshire coast. The Banff RNLI lifeboat was launched at about 1615 BST after the coastguard received a call from a man reporting his yacht on fire off Macduff.

  • Australia oil well catches fire

    2 November 2009

    An oil well at the centre of a massive spill in the Timor Sea off the north-west coast of Australia is on fire. The company which runs the well, PTTEP Australasia, said the fire broke out as it made another attempt to plug a leak deep underwater at the West Atlas rig.

  • Ship with explosive cargo catches fire

    9 February 2007

    A flag of convenience ship carrying volatile ammonium nitrate is being towed back to Newcastle after its engine room caught fire. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the engine or wiring of the Bahamas flagged Baltimar Boreas had caught fire, disabling the ship, after it left the Newcastle Port on Thursday night.

  • Fire On Board A2Sea’s Sea Gale

    21 May 2014

    On Tuesday 20 May 2014, fire broke out in the engine room on the crew vessel Sea Gale. Sea Gale is deployed at the Meerwind Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea. Firefighters extinguished the fire and Sea Gale is now being towed to Hvide Sande Shipyard. No people or environment were injured and an […]

  • Fire-Stricken Barzan Reaches UK

    21 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 18,000 TEU containership Barzan, owned by the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), that suffered a fire a week ago while under way to Felixtowe, UK, arrived to the DP World London Gateway on Sunday evening. Following the fire, reported last Tuesday, the crew diverted the ship to Rotterdam where the ship’s damage was assessed […]

  • Fire-Stricken Barzan Reaches UK

    21 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 18,000 TEU containership Barzan, owned by the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), that suffered a fire a week ago while under way to Felixtowe, UK, arrived to the DP World London Gateway on Sunday evening. Following the fire, reported last Tuesday, the crew diverted the ship to Rotterdam where the ship’s damage was assessed […]