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  • Mombasa Port Fires Strike Leaders

    6 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Twenty-seven workers of the Mombasa port were fired on Saturday as they are believed to had organized a crippling strike that shut down the port for two days last week, Reuters reports citing the port authority. The strike started on Wednesday and saw around 2,000 workers protest against higher health care costs. Namely, the government […]

  • Tanker Catches Fire in Kiel Canal

    17 May 2017

    A fire broke out onboard product/chemical tanker Oraness while it was transiting the Kiel Canal in the evening hours of May 16, a representative of the Fire Department Suchsdorf confirmed to World Maritime News. The 79-meter-long vessel, unloaded at the time of the incident, was en route to Brunsbüttel from Aarhus. The fire occurred in […]

  • APSI Provides Update on Fire Accident

    13 February 2014

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI) has released the following update regarding an incident that occurred early morning on 12th February at its facility. At approximately 6:50am, maintenance was being performed on the shipyard’s gantry crane when an electrical fault occurred. Following protocol, NAVSES and the Philadelphia Fire Department responded. One employee, who is now in […]

  • Nigeria: Funiwa Fire Stops Burning

    6 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Chevron’s subsidiary, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), announced that the fire at the site of the Funiwa 1A natural gas well offshore Nigeria ceased burning on Friday, March 2. The well stopped flowing on its own.  Chevron says it has detected no natural gas flowing from the well since the fire ceased burning and is monitoring […]

  • Fire Kills FSO Chief Engineer

    18 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Engine room fire that broke out on Pertamina-owned Cilacap/Permina Samudra 104 floating storage and offloading (FSO) killed the chief engineer Purwo Hadi Wibowo, whose body was found in the engine room at 9 pm Jakarta time yesterday unit has suffered extensive damage following an engine room fire, IHS Maritime 360 reports. Cilacap/Permina Samudra 104 , carrying 45,000 […]

  • Fire crews hampered by bio-diesel

    27 April 2009

    About 65 firefighters are tackling a blaze in a warehouse building close to the port area of a Norfolk resort. Crews were called to Swanstons Road in Great Yarmouth early on Sunday morning. Group manager Peter Mitchell of Norfolk Fire and Rescue said they had to deal with a major fire as well as bio-diesel […]

  • Fire at Tilbury Docks Grain Terminal

    4 July 2014

    A grain conveyor belt caught fire at Tilbury Docks in London on Tuesday.   Two engines each from Orsett, Grays and Rayleigh Weir fire stations joined two fire tugs, Kotug’s rotortugs RT Leader and RT Champion, to battle flames at the Port of Tilbury as clouds of smoke were billowed from the docks. The incident commander […]

  • Cruise Ship Fire Caused By Cigarette?

    26 March 2006

    A fire apparently started by a cigarette raced through cabins on a cruise ship in the Caribbean early Thursday, killing an American and injuring 11 other people, officials said.

  • No injuries reported in fire aboard ship

    6 August 2007

    A fire aboard a ship docked at the Port of Beaumont took away a little time from workers, but left no one injured, said John Roby, public information officer for the port.

  • UPDATE: Ocean Drover Fire Contained

    10 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    After over 18 hours the fire on board the livestock carrier Ocean Drover in Fremantle Harbour WA, Australia, has been extinguished. One Filipino seafarer remains in a critical condition after sustaining burns and smoke inhalation after yesterday’s fire. Another two seafarers who were taken to hospital have been cleared for release and will join the other 52 […]

  • One dead in Caribbean ship fire

    22 March 2006

    One person has been killed and 11 injured in a fire that broke out on a luxury cruise liner in the Caribbean. The Star Princess was en route from Grand Cayman to Jamaica when the blaze started in a cabin, the ship’s operator, Princess Cruises, said.

  • Gallery: Gulf of Mexico platform fire

    6 January 2017

    Following a fire on an oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, which has now been put out, the U.S. Coast Guard has released the photos of the firefighting operations. To remind, the Ship Shoal 266 A platform owned by Renaissance Offshore caught fire around early morning on Thursday. There were four […]

  • Fire on Alaska platform contained (Gallery)

    3 October 2014

    Responders to the Baker platform fire, in the Cook Inlet of Alaska, have reported full containment. According to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, firefighting capability and monitoring will be maintained through the night and the Unified Command will remain active until the platform is fully secured. The unified command consists of the Coast Guard, […]

  • Fire flares on illegal fishing boats

    9 June 2006

    Fire has again broken out on two suspected Chinese illegal fishing boats being held in Darwin Harbour. Northern Territory Police say heat from an exhaust pipe probably started the fire. They say fishing nets were leaning against the boats’ exhaust pipes while the engines were running, to ensure the 55 tonnes of suspected illegal catch […]

  • Fire breaks out on DOF vessel

    21 August 2015

    A fire broke out aboard the Skandi Stolmen offshore support vessel in Brazil on Wednesday. According to DOF, a Norwegian company which owns the vessel through Norskan offshore, the fire was “effectively” extinguished. Sixteen crew members were transported to other vessels and are now safe, the company said, adding that they have all disembarked in Macaé, state […]

  • Freighter Catches Fire off Aberdeen

    26 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Bahamian-flagged general cargo ship Celtica Hav had to return to Scotland’s Aberdeen Harbour after the crew detected smoke emanating from the ship’s cargo hold, shortly after the vessel’s departure to Hamburg on Thursday evening, local media reports. The crew alerted the local authorities, who instructed the vessel to return to to Aberdeen, where fire […]

  • Pirates open fire on fishing boat

    18 April 2006

    Pirates armed with shotguns opened fire on a Malaysian fishing boat about nine nautical miles off the Parit Haji Baki coast here at 2am yesterday. Iskandar Kutil, 52, and his assistant known only as Sukiri, 40, escaped injuries when several shots whizzed past metres above their heads. One pellet was lodged in the side of […]

  • NGO: ACES Again on Fire at Gadani

    9 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Gadani’s shipbreaking plot no. 54 was sealed off on November 8 after a fire broke out on-board the ship ACES again, according to the NGO Shipbeaking Platform. No workers got caught in the flames of the fire, which occurred on the same floating oil production tanker that blew up on November 1, 2016. Last year’s incident […]

  • Fire at Mumbai Dockyard Injures Three

    9 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Three people have been injured in a fire that broke out this morning on the Indian navy’s frigate INS Ganga while undergoing refit at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, local media reported. The fire is said to have started in the ship’s boiler room during welding work. The injured, two civilians and a naval officer, […]

  • Freighter Catches Fire off Aberdeen

    26 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Bahamian-flagged general cargo ship Celtica Hav had to return to Scotland’s Aberdeen Harbour after the crew detected smoke emanating from the ship’s cargo hold, shortly after the vessel’s departure to Hamburg on Thursday evening, local media reports. The crew alerted the local authorities, who instructed the vessel to return to to Aberdeen, where fire […]

  • Ship catches fire off Negros

    2 February 2006

    A fire broke out early Wednesday morning on a passenger vessel of the Negros Navigation Co. (NN) on the way here from Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippine Coast said Thursday.

  • Fire on ship, 1000 safe but stalled

    3 April 2006

    Calcutta/Haldia, April 2: A ship carrying around 1,000 passengers caught fire at Sandheads, around 230 km from Calcutta, on its way back from Port Blair to the city.

  • Fire erupts on Danish bulker at UK port

    31 January 2022
    Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    A Denmark-flagged bulk carrier suffered a cargo hold fire at the Southampton Bulk Terminal, the United Kingdom.

  • Fire Onboard MV ‘HANSA BRANDENBURG’

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Shipmanagement Company Leonhardt & Blumberg Hamburg, Germany reports that on July 15 2013 a cargo container caught fire onboard MV “HANSA BRANDENBURG” container ship, during her voyage from Singapore to Durban about 200 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. The Croatian Master and the complete crew of Ukrainian and Kiribati nationality left the ship and have been […]

  • Update: Drunken Ship Master Fired

    24 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    The ship master fined yesterday for having operated a ship drunk has been fired.