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  • Misdeclared Lithium Battery Cargo Caused Cosco Pacific’s Fire

    8 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Cosco Pacific’s cargo hold fire caused by spontaneous combustion of misdeclared lithium batteries.

  • PipeChina stops Beihai LNG terminal construction after fire kills five

    3 November 2020
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    State-owned China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network (PipeChina) has suspended construction work at the second phase of its Beihai liquefied natural gas terminal in southern China after a fire that killed five people.

  • Update: Storage Tank Fire near Port of Santos Rages On

    6 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Over a hundred of firefighters are battling to contain the fire that broke out on Thursday, April 2nd at Latin America’s largest fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo located near the port of Santos, Brazil. Three fuel tanks out of six initially hit by the blaze were still burning on Sunday, Reuters said citing the fire department and […]

  • Deepwater Horizon Fire: 11 Workers Still Missing

    22 April 2010

    At approximately 10 p.m. (CST) Tuesday night, an explosion rocked Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the search continues for 11 workers still missing following what could be one of the nation’s deadliest offshore drilling incidents of the past half-century. Seventeen people were […]

  • Livestock Carrier Catches Fire in Australia’s Port of Portland

    4 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    A livestock carrier caught fire Tuesday evening while docked at the Port of Portland in Victoria, Australia, according to the local Country Fire Authority (CFA). The livestock carrier, identified as the Panama-flagged Awassi Express, was not carrying any livestock at the time of the incident. CFA was called to the port around 8 p.m. local […]

  • Fire Safety Onboard Ships Still Serious Concern

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Recent events have demonstrated that a fire onboard a ship can be potentially devastating and can seriously affect the safety of those on board. Preliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Fire Safety Systems, carried out between 1 September 2012 and 30 November 2012 in the Paris MoU region show that: 103 ships […]

  • Petrofac opens Montrose fire and emergency training centre (UK)

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Petrofac Training Services has reopened its Montrose fire and emergency response training facility in Scotland following a £1.5 million upgrade. Trainees will benefit from the most realistic and credible fire training at one of the world’s most advanced oil and gas training centres. The 16-acre site includes nine state-of-the-art training modules, three heli-decks and vast […]

  • Crew Member Injured in Finlandia Seaways Engine Room Fire

    17 April 2018

    Crew member airlifted from Finlandia Seaways after engine room fire.

  • Engine room fire disables Cap Jackson containership

    4 August 2020
    Vessels

    The Panamax containership Cap Jackson reported a fire in the auxiliary engine room early July 29, 2020, while getting ready to transit Panama Canal. The crew members are reported to be safe and there have been no injuries reported. The crew is checking temperatures of all areas and are continuously monitoring the situation. The 4,600 TEU […]

  • RoPax Ferry Catches Fire off Isle of Wight

    19 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    A car and passenger ferry operating between UK mainland and the Isle of Wight caught fire in the morning hours of Thursday, January 19, the UK Coastguard reports. At about 9.30 am local time Thursday the St Faith car ferry operated by WightLink contacted the UK Coastguard reporting a fire on their bridge wing port side. When […]

  • Navios Bulk Carrier Catches Fire at UK’s Immingham Dock

    18 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    A bulk carrier with 19 crew on board suffered a fire while it was moored at Immingham Docks, UK in the afternoon hours of April 16, according to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The vessel in question is the 76,602 dwt Navios Orbiter, owned by shipping company Navios Maritime Partners, according to AIS data provided by […]

  • 509 Oil Rig Fire Outbursts since 2006

    22 April 2010

    Nine major oil rig fires have killed at least two people and seriously injured 12 since 2006 in the Gulf of Mexico, a lonely, high-risk… Source: Houston Chronicle ,April 22, 2010

  • Meyer Werft: Norwegian Getaway Catches Fire (Germany)

    6 March 2013

    A fire leading to significant smoke formation broke out on a ship newbuilding Norwegian Getaway in the covered building dock II in Meyer Werft yesterday, March 5. At present the shipyard’s fire brigade and members of the Papenburg fire department are still in operation on the yard premises. The affected production areas and the shipyard’s visitors […]

  • Robbers Fire Upon Crew aboard Anchored Boxship

    30 September 2016

    Six robbers armed with guns boarded and fired upon the duty crew onboard an anchored containership while the vessel was at the Conakry Anchorage in Guinea, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) piracy reporting center. The Master activated the SSAS alert, raised the alarm and locked the accommodation, however, the robbers gained access into the ship […]

  • Fire Hits Tanker off Singapore, 18 Crew Evacuated

    8 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    MPA Singapore informed that all 18 crew members have been safely evacuated and the fire has been put out.

  • Norway: Fire at Huldra Platform Extinguished, Statoil Says

    13 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    At 14.30 today a fire was reported in an air compressor compartment on the Huldra platform in the North Sea, which is situated west of Mongstad. The fire was extinguished at 14.50., Statil announced on its website. None of the 19 persons on board the platform were injured in the incident. Huldra has been developed […]

  • Qatar Petroleum organizes fire and safety research forum

    7 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Qatar Petroleum’s Industrial Cities Directorate recently organized a meeting of the LASTFIRE Group, which was hosted at Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College. The venue provided a fitting setting for the delegates of the international oil & gas industry who discussed the results of recent studies and research on fire safety. The LASTFIRE Group comprises […]

  • Photos: Spanish Bulker Hit by Engine Room Fire

    12 September 2017

    A fire broke out on board a Spanish-flagged bulk carrier Bahia de Alcudia on Monday, September 11 while the ship was in the Port of Tarragona, Spain. The fire, which erupted in one of the boiler’s in the ship’s engine room, was extinguished by Spanish Maritime Safety Agency on the same day, the agency said. The […]

  • Hapag-Lloyd Discharges Fire-Damaged Yantian Express Containers

    26 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    All Yantian Express containers affected by the fire have been discharged from the vessel.

  • TransCanada acquires Ironwood gas-fired power plant

    8 October 2015

    TransCanada Corporation said that it has reached an agreement to acquire the Ironwood natural gas-fired, combined cycle power plant in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with a nameplate capacity of 778 megawatts, from Talen Energy Corporation for US$654 million.

  • Engine-Room Fire Disables Tanker, Kills One Crewman

    17 August 2014

    U.S. Coast Guard air and cutter forces continue to assist the 22-person crew of a 485-foot, Tokyo Marine’s chemical tanker Pine Galaxy after a fire in the main engine-room disabled the vessel, leaving it without propulsion, about 700 miles west of Cape Blanco, Oregon, Wednesday, August 13. The fire was extinguished using installed fire fighting […]

  • Fire-Stricken Olga Maersk to Miss Repair Deadline

    18 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    The repair period of Olga Maersk will be extended until February 23, 2019.

  • Costa Smeralda Suffers Minor Fire Damage at Meyer Turku

    19 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Cruise ship Costa Smeralda, under construction at Meyer Turku, suffered a fire on March 18.

  • Crew Vessel SEA GALE Suffers Engine Room Fire

    21 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    On Tuesday 20 May 2014, fire broke out in the engine room on the crew vessel SEA GALE. SEA GALE is deployed at the Meerwind Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea. Firefighters extinguished the fire and SEA GALE is now being towed to Hvide Sande Shipyard. No people or environment were injured and an […]

  • One Dead, Seven Injured in Fire at DSME’s Okpo Yard

    10 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    A shipyard worker was killed and seven were injured in a fire that broke out at a Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) yard in Okpo, South Korea, Yonhap news agency said. As informed, the man suffocated from poisonous gas that gushed from the fire that started in a tank of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) […]