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• Fire damages port conveyor belt

  24 August 2009

  More than 30 firefighters were called to tackle a fire on a conveyor belt at the Port of Tyne. The fire broke out on a 720ft (200m) section of the belt, which was being used to feed rape seed on to a loading ship on the south side of the river. The flames were extinguished […]

• Subsea7 hired by Equinor and Shell under two new contracts

  

  18 July 2025

  Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

  Subsea7 has secured two new contracts, one with Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor for work in Norway and the other with UK-headquartered energy firm Shell for the provision of services in the U.S. Namely, Subsea7 announced the award of a large contract, worth between $300 million and $500 million, by Equinor for the Fram Sør development […]

• 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, […]

• Petrojarl Knarr Fire Contained, No Injuries

  24 March 2015

  Business & Finance

  A fire broke out this morning on board the Petrojarl Knarr Floating Production Storage Offloading Vessel (FPSO) off Floro, Norway. The production has been shut down and there has been no reported impact to the environment, BG Group said in a statement. The incident was reported at approximately 01.45 hours this morning involving in a […]

• 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, […]

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 […]

• 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 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 […]

• Wight Sky Passenger Ferry Hit by Fire

  

  14 December 2018

  M/V Wight Sky RoRO ferry suffered a fire while in berth at Lymington.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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 […]

• 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. 

• 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 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.

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]