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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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.

  • Update: Drunken Ship Master Fired

    24 March 2015
    Business & Finance

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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 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.

  • Equinor’s ‘largest international asset’ starts producing oil off Brazil

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor and its partners have achieved start-up of production from a large field in Brazil’s Santos Basin.

  • 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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Landslide shareholder vote begins final countdown to ADES-Shelf Drilling merger completion

    7 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    ADES International Holding, a subsidiary of ADES Holding Company, which is part of Saudi Arabia-headquartered ADES Group, is one step closer to wrapping up its merger with the UAE-based Shelf Drilling, thanks to the lion’s share of the latter’s shareholders endorsing the business combination after the Saudi player upped its initial takeover offer.

  • 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.