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  • Investigation launches into fire at Åsgard B

    21 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a fire that broke out in a transformer at the Åsgard B platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The fire, which was reported in the transformer room on 14 November, was extinguished but produced smoke and led to a production shutdown. There were 118 […]

  • Rescue teams tackling boat fire

    23 June 2007

    Rescue teams from Norfolk and Suffolk are tackling a fire on a tug boat off the north Norfolk coast. Yarmouth Coastguard received a may-day call from the tug boat, ‘HT Blade’, which was on fire on Sunday morning.

  • Crew missing in Chile boat fire

    21 April 2007

    At least one man has died and eight are missing after a fire erupted on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, west of Chile. More than 100 crew were evacuated following the fire, which started in the engine room of the fishing trawler.

  • Cruise ship fire report released

    19 April 2007

    Poor fire training and a failure to carry out engine modifications have been highlighted in an accident report into a blaze on a cruise ship. The Calypso was off the coast of Beachy Head, East Sussex, with 708 passengers and staff on board when the fire broke out on 6 May last year.

  • Norfolk-based ship fires on pirates

    7 June 2007

    The Norfolk-based amphibious ship Carter Hall fired on pirates off the coast of Somalia as they overtook a Danish cargo ship, a Navy official said Wednesday. The Carter Hall fired several warning shots over the Danish vessel Danica White on Saturday and then destroyed three skiffs used by the pirates, said the Navy official, who […]

  • Maersk Kampala Update: Fire Is Out

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The fire-fighting teams aboard the Maersk Kampala have succeeded in putting out the fire aboard the Maersk Kampala. Some smoke continues to come from some of the containers that had caught fire but will stop eventually with continued spraying by the tugs and flooding by the fire-fighting teams. Operational planning is now the priority, including […]

  • Fire on Dredger: Two Missing (China)

    21 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Two people are missing after a ship fire off the coast of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday morning, local maritime authorities said. The dredging vessel caught fire around 10 a.m. in sea waters about 5 km from a pier of a local power plant in the city of Beihai, according to the […]

  • Fire Reported on SeaRose FPSO (Canada)

    8 August 2012

    A fire outbreak has been reported onboard the SeaRose FPSO, moored in the Atlantic, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. According to CBC, the fire broke out Tuesday evening in the FPSO’s pump room, but was quickly extinguished. No injuries have been reported so far. Furthermore, CBC reports that Husky Energy, the operator of the FPSO, will now […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 Extensively Damages HMAS Bundaberg

    12 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Australian Navy’s Armidale Class Patrol Boat HMAS Bundaberg has suffered significant damage in a fire yesterday that broke out while the patrol boat was undergoing routine maintenance in a shed at Aluminium Boats Australia (ABA) in Brisbane, according to the Navy’s Chief Vice Admiral Tim Barrett. “I have been advised that HMAS Bundaberg has suffered […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 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 […]

  • South Korean subsea cable factory breaks ground

    1 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has begun the construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will once operational deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. The Dangjin Submarine Cable Plant 2 is located at the Godae District of the Asan National Industrial Complex in […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]