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  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Fire Engulfs Vessel in Khalid Port, UAE

    10 May 2019

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

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Greek Ferry Suffers Fire, Returns to Port

    30 September 2019

    A fire started aboard Olympic Champion ferry, carrying over 600 people, shortly after it left Igoumenitsa port.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]