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  • Fire Island Dredging About to Begin

    24 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    A dredging project to maintain safe, public access to the marina and docking facilities at Sailors Haven and Watch Hill on Fire Island is scheduled to begin next week.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and multiple storm events in 2012 sediment accumulated in the Sailors Haven and Watch Hill navigation channels and marinas. In […]

  • Report: PCTC Catches Fire at Incheon Port

    21 May 2018

    A fire broke out on a Panama-flagged PCTC anchored at Korean Incheon Port, Yonhap News Agency reported. 

  • 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 […]

  • Fire Breaks Out on Board Bulker in Italy

    29 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    A fire has been reported on board a bulker while the vessel was moored at the Port of Civitavecchia, Italy.

  • Fire breaks out in ship in dock

    29 October 2007

    More than 25 firefighters have tackled a blaze that broke out in a ship being repaired at a yard in Wirral. Crews were called to the dry dock in Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead

  • ‘Largest UK independent oil & gas producer’ arises with TotalEnergies-NEO NEXT upstream merger

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    French energy giant TotalEnergies is set to merge its upstream business with NEO NEXT, creating what is said to be the largest independent oil & gas producer in the UK. The partners have signed an agreement under which TotalEnergies will merge its upstream business with NEO NEXT and become the leading shareholder in the expanded […]

  • Panamanian Boxship Catches Fire off Vietnam

    9 March 2015

    A fire broke out on board a Panamanian-flagged containership Golden 168 on Sunday morning while the ship was docking off Vung Tau, southern Vietnam. The fire reportedly broke out in cargo hold No. 1 at about 03:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported. Local coast guard and fire-fighting forces were rushed to the scene and managed to extinguish […]

  • Fire at Canadian Breakbulk Terminal 90Pct Contained

    17 April 2015

    A fire that broke out yesterday on the East Berth of Canada’s Squamish Terminal is 90% contained as of 1 am today local time, the local Emergency Operations Centre reports. Efforts will move to extinguishing the fire underneath the dock once the morning’s high tide recedes. The fire did not start on the vessel that was tied […]

  • Researchers Looking Into Causes of Wind Turbine Fires

    16 November 2016
    Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    A group of international researchers led by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have teamed up to investigate the causes of wind turbine fires and to determine how to improve fire safety. Fires in wind turbine, both on land and offshore, have huge human, financial and environmental consequences, DTU said. In the field of fire safety it […]

  • Container Ship Catches Fire at Vancouver Docks

    13 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire erupted in a generator room of an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged container ship while it was docked at Port of Vancouver’s Fraser Surrey Docks, July 12. The fire started after the 2006-built Cap Blanche completed its unloading, and was quickly put out. There have been no reported injuries or spills, and the damage to the […]

  • Taiwan’s first offshore power cable factory inaugurated (Gallery)

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vision

    A joint venture (JV) between Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT and Taiwanese cable company Walsin Lihwa has inaugurated Taiwan’s first offshore power cable factory. Operated by the JV Walsin Energy Cable System (WECS), the factory was inaugurated on Saturday, December 6, in Kaohsiung, spanning 231,000 square meters. The factory has a 50-meter […]

  • Fire aboard Turkish Tanker, Crew Evacuated

    10 March 2017

    A fire broke out on board the Turkish-flagged tanker Izmail 2 on Tuesday evening, March 7 while the ship was at Hereke Demir anchorage. Once informed of the incident the Turkish Coast Guard sent lifeboat Kıyem 2 and Söndüren 7 tug to the scene to put out the fire. The three crew members of the stricken […]

  • Chemical Fire at Port Metro Vancouver Contained

    5 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    A four-alarm fire broke out in a container on Wednesday afternoon at the Centerm container terminal on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, Port Metro Vancouver. Vancouver Coastal Health confirmed the material inside was a hazardous organic compound (trichloroisocyanuric acid), and that it was a possible eye and skin irritant. The Vancouver Fire Department was rushed […]

  • Fire-Stricken RCC Passion Reaches Brest

    4 December 2019

    Fire-stricken RCC Passion has managed to restore propulsion power and reach the French port-city Brest.

  • Containership Hit by ‘Devastating’ Fire off Mozambique

    22 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    The steerless containership was battling high swells posing a safety risk to its 25 crew members.

  • Four New Fires Hit Tianjin Port

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Four new fires have erupted at the Tianjin port blast site in China, according to Xinhua news agency. The fires have been reported within the 3-kilometer area that has been evacuated amid extremely high contamination level of cyanide, estimated to be around 356 times higher from the level safe for human health. Fire fighters have been […]

  • UASC Boxship Catches Fire at Port of Hamburg

    28 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Firefighting crews were called in to intervene today at the Port of Hamburg after one of the containers on the 13,500 TEU MS Alula caught fire early this morning, according to the official web site of the city of Hamburg. The 2012-built MS Alula, operated by United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), was arriving to Waltershof harbor in the early hours […]

  • Four New Fires Hit Tianjin Port

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Four new fires have erupted at the Tianjin port blast site in China, according to Xinhua news agency. The fires have been reported within the 3-kilometer area that has been evacuated amid extremely high contamination level of cyanide, estimated to be around 356 times higher from the level safe for human health. Fire fighters have been […]

  • Shell closes Prelude FLNG after fire

    3 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Energy giant Shell has shut down its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility offshore Western Australia due to a fire incident.

  • Tanker Catches On Fire off Kandla Port

    18 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    A major fire broke out on board the tanker Genessa on January 17 off the coast of Kandla, India.

  • DEME’s Living Stone Catches Fire in Santurtzi

    16 February 2018

    DEME Group’s advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone caught fire while under construction in a shipyard in Santurtzi, Spain.

  • Pemex: No environmental damage caused by ‘Eye of fire’

    6 July 2021
    Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Days after a fire on the ocean surface dubbed the ‘Eye of fire’ in the Gulf of Mexico was put out, Mexico’s national oil company Pemex stated that environmental damage was avoided due to quick action by its workers.

  • Norwegian Joy Catches Fire at Meyer Werft

    11 October 2016

    A fire broke out on the cruise ship newbuilding Norwegian Joy at Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, on the morning of October 8, 2016. The fire started on one of the balconies of the cruise ship’s Deck 9 at 7:50 am, and was brought under control at around 9:20 am, according to the local police […]

  • Wight Sky Passenger Ferry Hit by Fire

    14 December 2018

    M/V Wight Sky RoRO ferry suffered a fire while in berth at Lymington.

  • Fugro Simphony Catches Fire, Crew Evacuated

    20 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro Subsea Services-operated ROV support vessel Fugro Symphony has reportedly caught fire, early this morning in Peterhead Harbour. According to reports, the fire-fighting teams were called for duty at approximately 3 AM on Wednesday and it took about 35 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. More than 80 crew members were safely evacuated to the Fishermen’s Mission […]