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  • IUMI Calls for More Action to Tackle Containership Fires

    21 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Two recent onboard containership fires have fueled concerns from International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) over the challenges involved with managing these incidents at sea as seafarers are being asked to tackle onboard fires with inadequate equipment. The two recent containership fires which raised concerns involve the 2015-built NNCI Arauco which ignited during welding operations on September 1 while the ship was in […]

  • Fire Erupts on board Cidade de Maricá FPSO

    16 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out today on board the Cidade de Maricá FPSO platform.

  • Update: APL Austria’s Fire Extinguished, Inspection Begins

    16 February 2017

    The fire that raged for days on board the APL Austria docked at the port of Ngqurha near Port Elizabeth has finally been extinguished, according to the latest update from the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA). “The good news is that the fire on board is completely extinguished and port operations continued as normal […]

  • Fire breaks out on Knarr FPSO off Norway

    24 March 2015

    A fire broke out onboard Petrojarl Knarr Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) unit, offshore Norway early this morning. The vessel is operating on the Knarr field offshore Norway for BG Group. It has been leased from Teekay Corporation and is moored approximately 120 kilometres off the Norwegian coast. According to BG Group’s statement sent to Offshore […]

  • £1.5 billion enables UK-US pair to get their hands on Europe’s giant LNG terminal

    1 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Centrica and U.S. investment firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP), part of Bridgeport Group, have brought into their fold a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Kent County, United Kingdom.

  • US Navy Ship Catches Fire in Croatian Shipyard

    3 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on board USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) while the ship was in Viktor Lenac Shipyard, Rijeka, Croatia.  There were no personnel injuries in the fire which broke out on July 31, and was extinguished within 45 minutes by ship’s force and shipyard fire brigade personnel. The cause of fire and extent of […]

  • Fire-Stricken Carnival Liberty Heads to San Juan

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Cruise Line’s ship Carnival Liberty that experienced a fire earlier this week departed from St. Thomas on Thursday evening en route for its homeport of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the ship is expected to arrive Friday morning, local time. “All necessary authorities including the U.S. Coast Guard have provided permission for the vessel to sail. […]

  • Fire-Stricken Carnival Liberty Heads to San Juan

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Cruise Line’s ship Carnival Liberty that experienced a fire earlier this week departed from St. Thomas on Thursday evening en route for its homeport of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the ship is expected to arrive Friday morning, local time. “All necessary authorities including the U.S. Coast Guard have provided permission for the vessel to sail. […]

  • MSC to cover costs related to Maersk Elba fire

    19 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Swiss shipping major Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has decided to cover the costs associated with the fire on board the containership Maersk Elba so that the vessel operator will not declare General Average.

  • Oil tanker catches fire at Equinor’s Sture terminal

    13 September 2019

    Equinor’s emergency response center on Friday received reports of a fire in the engine room of the tanker Dubai Harmony. The ship is moored at the quayside at the Sture terminal in Øygarden municipality in Hordaland, Norway. 

  • 15 years in the making: Falkland Islands’ Sea Lion ready to move forward to first oil

    10 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    A final investment decision (FID) has been taken for a giant oil project in the North Falkland Basin (NFB), where $1.8 billion will be needed to foot the bill to first oil and $2.1 billion to project completion. This FID comes 15 years after the original oil discovery was made.

  • CMA CGM Ship Catches Fire off Spain

    28 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    The 9,415 TEU containership CMA CGM Fidelio caught fire while it was sailing off the coast of Ibiza, Spain on March 24, a representative of the vessel’s owner, the French shipping giant CMA CGM, confirmed. The fire, which started in the back of the ship at 4 am, was soon extinguished and CMA CGM Fidelio continued its […]

  • Total fires up Badamyar gas project

    2 May 2017
    Project & Tenders

    French oil company Total has started up production from the Badamyar project, located offshore 220 kilometers south of Yangon in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The project will enable an extension of the Yadana gas field’s 8 billion cubic meters per year production plateau beyond 2020, Total said on Tuesday. “Completed on schedule […]

  • Green Dragon fails to fire home crowds

    2 June 2009

    Green Dragon was unable to provide the massive crowds in Galway with the cheer they so desperately wanted today, finishing last of the seven yachts in the In Port races. In front of over 100,000 people, the Irish-Chinese boat came home a disappointing seventh. The fleet headed out into Galway Bay for the sixth In […]

  • Fire Damages Three Boats at NOAA Center

    4 July 2006

    SEATTLE

  • Fire-Ravaged Maersk Honam Reaches Gulf of Oman

    18 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Fire-stricken Maersk Honam, which is being towed to an anchor at Jebel Ali, has reached the Gulf of Oman.

  • Calcium Hypochlorite Suspected Cause of APL Austria’s Fire

    8 March 2017

    The suspected cause of the fire on board the Liberian cargo vessel APL Austria is a chemical known as “calcium hypochlorite”, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) said citing preliminary investigation findings. The chemical was found stowed under deck in No.4 cargo hold, where the fire broke out. Calcium hypochlorite is commonly used for sanitation and […]

  • Fire breaks out at offshore platform leaving five dead and one missing

    21 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Human Capital, Safety

    Based on most recent reports, the fire incident at a platform offshore Gabon has resulted in five deaths while one person is still missing.

  • Three missing after fire on CNOOC offshore platform

    9 April 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Safety

    CNOOC Limited has put out a fire on its production platform in the Bohai Bay and is now searching for three workers who went missing.

  • Grimaldi RoRo Ship Catches Fire off Italy

    22 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    A RoRo ferry operated by Italian Grimaldi Group caught fire off the coast of Livorno on November 21.

  • Alaskan Star Rig Catches Fire Offshore Brazil

    15 March 2012

    A fire outbreak occured Tuesday around 14:30 in one of the oil columns of the Alaskan Star rig, operated by the Brazil’s state controlled oil and gas company, Petrobras. The owner of the rig, Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (“QGOG”), said that the fire brigade was immediately activated, and successfully extinguished the fire. QGOG informed […]

  • Cable Ship Chamarel Catches Fire Offshore Namibia

    12 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    France Telecom-Orange has suffered a major incident on its cable ship, the Chamarel. A fire broke out on the ship late afternoon on 8 August while returning from a repair operation on the Sat3-Safe cable off the coast of Namibia in the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the crew’s efforts to control the fire, the decision was […]

  • TGS, BGP, Staatsolie embark on seismic survey to map oil & gas deposits in shallow waters

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Research & Development

    Norwegian/American energy data and intelligence player, Tomlinson Geophysical Services (TGS), has kicked off a seismic survey in the shallow offshore area off the coast of Saramacca and Coronie to find oil and gas reserves as part of a joint project with Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the Chinese Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting (BGP Offshore). 

  • Fire Hits Rumo Sugar Terminal in Port of Santos

    15 July 2016

    A fire broke out at Brazilian Port of Santos’ Rumo sugar terminal on July 14, causing temporary stoppage of operations at the facility, a representative of Santos Port Authority told World Maritime News. The fire, which started at 4:00 a.m. in a conveyor of the plant, was extinguished some two hours later by the local […]

  • Tug Fire Kills Two at Bengbu Shenzhou Shipyard

    15 June 2015

    Two shipyard workers were killed and one was injured after a tugboat under construction at China’s Bengbu Shenzhou Machinery (former Bengbu Shipyard) caught fire on June 11, according to local media. The fire reportedly started in the tugboat’s cabin, killing one worker immediately, while the other two workers were rushed to hospital. Unfortunately, the help […]