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  • 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 […]

  • Fire Hits Bulker in Dordrecht, Netherlands

    11 July 2018

    A fire breaks out on an ocean-going vessel at Mallegat-Noord in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

  • Fire-Stricken Iron Chieftain to Be Retired

    16 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Bulker Iron Chieftain is to be retired due to significant damage sustained after catching fire at Port of Kembla.

  • Engineer killed in FSO fire in Indonesia

    18 September 2014

    A seafarer has been found dead on the FSO Cilacap Permina Samudra 104 vessel, which caught fire Tuesday night.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Three Injured in Cargo Ship Fire

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on Saturday on board an Indonesia-flagged general cargo ship while docked in Surabaya, Indonesia injuring three people. The fire on board the 2005-built MV Mentari Pratama, operated by liner company Mentari Sejata Perkasa, is believed to had been caused by a gas cylinder explosion during welding works in a repair yard. According to local media […]

  • 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 Hits Bulker in Port of Southampton

    28 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Bulker Sirina suffered a fire in its cargo hold while it was at a dock in Port of Southampton on May 25.

  • 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 in Port of Los Angeles Contained

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The raging wharf fire in Wilmington that resulted in shutting down of all container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles has been more than 90 percent contained, the port authorities said in a statement yesterday. The fire broke out after a welding accident on Monday evening, igniting the 800-foot-long wharf. As explained by the […]

  • 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.

  • LNG as double engine for change: coal phaseout in Asia, net-zero gains worldwide

    16 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) can play a key role in speeding up Asia’s transfer from coal to more renewable sources in power generation and help the region–and consequently, the world–meet its decarbonization objectives, a new study by S&P Global Commodity Insights (SPGCI) has found.

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Small fire reported on Tartan A platform

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    The ‘Tartan A’ offshore oil platform in the UK North Sea caught fire on Saturday morning. All workers accounted for.

  • Update: Maersk Honam Fire Localized

    9 March 2018

    The fire on board Maersk Line’s ultra large containership Maersk Honam has been localized.

  • 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 […]

  • Gunashli fire: Another body found

    4 January 2016

    Body of another oil worker who went missing after the Gunashli 10 platform explosion in Azerbaijan has been found. According to the Azeri ministry for emergency situations, the dead body was found in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea. This brings a total number of recovered bodies to nine, with twenty-one workers still missing. […]

  • 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 […]