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  • Ship fires threaten Wuhan water

    3 September 2007

    Environmental authorities in Wuhan, who have been closely monitoring water quality in the main drinking water source for the city of 8.31 million people, announced the water is safe to drink after one ship carrying 49 tons of methanol sank in the Hanjiang River, local media reported today.

  • Spain: Minorcan Project Under Fire

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Oceana has made a formal complaint to UNESCO today, against a project that aims to dump waste materials from the dredging of Maó harbour into a Biosphere Reserve off the island of Minorca. The material displays high levels of mercury as well as lead and copper, and so Oceana believes that the project should be […]

  • Fire Slows Down Brazil’s Itaqui Port

    3 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    A significant fire that occurred on January 29 at the Itaqui Terminal in São Luís, Brazil may cause delays for shippers using this port, Skuld reports. The fire reportedly started at the pulp storage shed of the country’s major cellulose exporter Suzano. Initial information indicates that the terminal’s grain loading belt system may have been affected by […]

  • Fire Engulfs Vessel in Khalid Port, UAE

    10 May 2019

    The fire was extinguished but the vessel was almost completely destroyed.

  • USCG: Bulker Catches Fire in the Port of Toledo

    18 February 2019

    A fire broke out on board a bulk carrier in the US Port of Toledo on February 17.

  • 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 […]

  • USA: Senators Push for Fire Island Dredging

    11 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to combine Army Corps “operations and maintenance funding” with federal disaster aid for the dredging of Fire Island Inlet and beach replenishment at Robert Moses and Fire Island Beaches. Fire Island […]

  • Update: Response to Purple Beach Fire Resumes

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Salvage operation of the Purple Beach freighter off Germany has entered its fifth day today with three ships back at the scene ready to reduce the remaining cloud of smoke coming out of the cargo space. According to Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME), the water already applied to the burning areas has considerably reduced the […]

  • Petrobras Halts Bunkering in Santos amid Fire

    7 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Brazil’s oil major Petrobras has suspended bunker operations at the port of Santos, declaring a force majeure due to a fire at Ultracargo’s fuel tank storage that broke out on Thursday, April 2nd. The port authority decided to suspend bunker operations as the fire was not extinguished, which led Petrobras to declare a force majeure […]

  • Fire Breaks Out on board Tanker in Kirkdale

    25 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out in one of the engine rooms of a Cyprus-flagged tanker at Canada Dock, on the river Mersey this morning, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service informed. The people on board the 4,139-dwt Julia have been evacuated, the firefighting service added. Five fire appliances from Kirkdale, Crosby, Liverpool City, Croxteth and Kensington community fire […]

  • Fire at Cargo and Passenger Ship VICTORIA SEAWAYS

    23 April 2013
    Business & Finance

      No one was injured when a fire broke out on DFDS ‘combined freight and passenger vessel VICTORIA SEAWAYS during the night between Kiel, Germany and Klaipeda in Lithuania. The fire was observed on the ship’s main deck at 00:52, when the ship was about 22 nautical miles from Nexø on Bornholm. The ship´s extinguishing […]

  • LR Issues Fire Loadings and Protection Guide

    26 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    The new Lloyd’s Register Energy Guidance Notes, launched at ONS 2014 on August 25, assist designers, owners and operators of oil and gas equipment on how to assess fire loadings on an installation, and how to protect people and equipment against different fire scenarios. “Protection against fires on board vessels and installations is critical to […]

  • Update: Fire on Gulf of Mexico platform extinguished

    5 January 2017

    The fire that broke out early Thursday morning on an offshore oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished. To remind, the U.S. Coast Guard had earlier on Thursday informed there was a platform burning near Grand Isle, offshore Louisiana, and that four people were rescued after evacuating from the platform into […]

  • Five dead and two still missing after Pemex platform fire

    24 August 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    A fire on a Pemex-operated platform off Mexico has resulted in the deaths of five workers and injuries to six while two are still missing.

  • Tanker fire kills seven at shipyard in Indonesia

    14 May 2020
    Human Capital, Infrastructure, Safety, Vessels

    Seven people died after an Aframax tanker undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in Indonesia caught fire on 11 May 2020.

  • Hyundai Heavy Fire Accident Kills Two

    22 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Two workers were killed and two injured in a fire accident that happened at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan on April 21. The fire broke out on a newbuilding Hull 2657, an 84,000-ton LPG carrier which is being built for Dorian LPG Ltd. The company confirmed the incident saying that the cause of the fire […]

  • Fire hits fishing boat in harbour

    21 March 2007

    A blaze which broke out on a boat in Fraserburgh Harbour has been brought under control by firefighters.

  • Croatia contains cargo ship fire

    6 February 2008

    Croatian emergency workers have managed to attach tow lines to a blazing Turkish cargo ship laden with heavy fuel oil in the Adriatic Sea. Firefighters worked through the night to contain the blaze, which broke out on Wednesday on the Und Adriyatik.

  • Trump fires Tillerson as Secretary of State

    13 March 2018

    U.S. President Donald J. Trump has ousted former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson from the Secretary of State position with plans to name CIA Director as the nation’s top diplomat.

  • Chevron fires up Wheatstone (Australia)

    9 October 2017

    Chevron has kicked off production of LNG from its giant Wheatstone development in Australia. The first LNG cargo from the onshore facility near Onslow, Western Australia, is expected in the coming weeks. “First LNG production is a significant milestone and is a credit to our partners, contractors and the many thousands of people who collaborated to […]

  • TotalEnergies fires up Argentinian offshore project letting Fenix fuel ‘Land of Fire’ with more gas

    20 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Transition

    TotalEnergies has powered an energy project at an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland up with new gas resources by starting production from a field in southern Argentina. This gas project is located 60 km off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, which is interpreted as ‘Land of Fire’ in English.

  • Boxship Fire Extinguished, Burchardkai Running as Normal

    5 September 2016

    The fire service completed its work on board the 2015-built containership CCNI Arauco shortly before midnight on Sunday after the fire, which started aboard the vessel on September 1, had been extinguished, according to Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft (HHLA). The cause of the fire is still unknown, however, earlier reports indicated that the incident could have started due to […]

  • 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 […]

  • Coast Guard tows fire-damaged ship

    17 January 2007

    Anchorage, Alaska – The U.S. Coast Guard is towing a fire-damaged fish processing ship damaged by fire toward Dutch Harbor. The 142 people aboard the Seattle-based Stellar Sea are in good conditions with no injuries. Last night, about 90 miles north of Dutch Harbor, the ship caught fire and was left powerless and without propulsion.

  • Fire inflames fears over goods safety

    18 June 2006

    The fear of an uncontrollable fire at Cat Lai Port on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City is ever present in the mind of the deputy director of New Port Company, under which the port operates. Following a barge fire on the busy waterway last month that threatened other ships, Colonel Tran Dinh Thao […]