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  • USA: Jensen Maritime to Design ‘Super Pumper’ Fireboat for SFFD

    10 February 2012

    Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc., a Crowley company, has been chosen to design a custom “super pumper” fireboat to enhance the City of San Francisco Fire Department’s (SFFD) marine fire fighting and response capabilities on water. This high-volume water and foam pumping NFPA Type II fireboat will feature six fire monitors and 26 manifold valves, allowing […]

  • World’s biggest maritime cargo carriers join Safetytech accelerator

    22 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    Some of the world’s biggest maritime cargo carriers are joining forces with the world’s first industrial safety technology accelerator to launch an innovation initiative to reduce cargo loss at sea. The companies joining the accelerator are Evergreen Line, HMM, Maersk, the Offen Group, Ocean Network Express (ONE), Seaspan as well as Lloyd’s Register. The aim […]

  • Mammoet Salvage deals with burning tanker

    19 August 2009

    Mammoet Salvage, based in Schiedam, the Netherlands, has started the salvage operation of the Formosaproduct Brick. This product tanker, with a length of 228.5 meters, is on fire in the Straits of Malacca, 20 miles from Port Dickson, Malaysia. The tanker, carrying 58,000 tons of highly flammable naphtha, collided with the Ostende Max bulk carrier […]

  • Hong Kong: Search for Two Sailors Still Active after Tanker Explosion

    11 January 2019

    Hong Kong authorities still looking for two crew members after an Aulac Fortune explosion and fire.

  • Boxship Kamala Ablaze in East China Sea

    12 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    A Liberia-flagged container ship caught fire around midnight, July 11, some 220 miles west of the Japanese island of Kuchinoshima in the East China Sea, according to local media. The duty officer of the fire-stricken 2,011 TEU Kamala sent out a distress signal to the Japanese Coast Guard shortly after midnight local time, July 12, reporting […]

  • Boxship Kamala Ablaze in East China Sea

    12 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    A Liberia-flagged container ship caught fire around midnight, July 11, some 220 miles west of the Japanese island of Kuchinoshima in the East China Sea, according to local media. The duty officer of the fire-stricken 2,011 TEU Kamala sent out a distress signal to the Japanese Coast Guard shortly after midnight local time, July 12, reporting […]

  • One crew member of X-Press Pearl tests positive for Covid as efforts to douse the fire start to bear fruit

    27 May 2021
    Environment, Human Capital, Safety, Vessels

    One of the two injured crew members of the X-Press Pearl containership, which remains ablaze off Colombo port, Sri Lanka, has tested positive for COVID-19, operator of the ship informed. According to Singapore-based X-Press Feeders, the two crew members, who received leg injuries during their evacuation from the ship on the morning of Tuesday, May […]

  • Video: Tanker Engulfed in Flames in Indonesia

    25 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    An oil product tanker named Srikandi 511 suffered a fire earlier today, which spread down river.

  • China: Wang Tak Shipbuilding Delivers New Fireboat

    5 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Recently, the new RAnger 4600 Class Fireboat, Guan Xiao Er Hao was delivered to the Dongguan Fire Services Department, China by the builder Wang Tak Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Hong Kong. This latest in the RAnger series of fireboats was designed by Naval Architects Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, Canada. Guan Xiao Er Hao […]

  • Mitsui, Tokyo Gas Announce Signing of Project Finance Agreement for the Natural-Gas-Fired Power Stations in Mexico

    30 September 2010
    Project & Tenders

    Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) and Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. (“TGC”) announced today that MT Falcon Holdings Company S.A.P.I. de C.V. (Mitsui: 70%, TGC: 30%) (“Falcon”) has signed a USD 750 million (approximately JPY 68 billion) project financing agreement on September 29 (US Eastern Daylight Time) with Japan Bank for International Cooperation and three commercial […]

  • Hellenic Seaways Ferry Ablaze, One Dead

    23 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    A dead body covered with severe burns has been found on the deck of a Hellenic Seaways ferry ablaze near Piraeus, Greece, the Hellenic Coast Guard informed.  The fire broke out earlier today on board the catamaran Highspeed 5 as it was moored for repairs at Ikonion, Piraeus. Shortly after as the fire spread a thick cloud of dark […]

  • Update: X-Press Pearl engulfed in flames after an explosion, crew evacuated

    25 May 2021
    Environment, Safety, Vessels

    Harrowing images have emerged this morning of the X-Press Pearl containership, engulfed in flames with thick, black smoke billowing from the vessel. The ship was hit by a fire on May 20th while at anchorage off Colombo harbour, Sri Lanka, and the local authorities have been working to extinguish it ever since. The situation seems […]

  • GLDD Scores Another Coastal Protection Contract

    17 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced yesterday the receipt of an award for a $23.4 million contract with an additional $11.2 million in options to construct a beach berm and dune at Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet, New York. Fire Island is a barrier island that helps protect back-bay communities along Great South Bay […]

  • Nucore Opens Offshore Wind Season, Kicks Off Walney Extension Work

    24 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oteac Ltd and HVAC & Refrigeration Engineering Ltd, part of the Nucore Group, have begun providing fire and gas detection and suppression services on the Walney Extension wind farm, which represents one in a number of the group’s recent offshore wind contracts.

  • MHI and Guacolda Energía sign MOU on ammonia

    7 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Guacolda Energía SpA, an independent power producer (IPP) in Chile, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to begin a feasibility study for the introduction of ammonia co-firing at a coal-fired thermal power plant in Huasco, Atacama Region. The signing ceremony was held at the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery […]

  • Remains of Three Missing Mariners Found onboard Maersk Honam

    12 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    The remains of three out of the four missing crew members have been found on board the Maersk Honam containership.

  • Tanker Ignites in Houston Ship Channel, Waterway Closed

    6 September 2016

    A tanker fire which started in the early morning hours on September 6 has temporarily closed the Houston Ship Channel, according to the United States Coast Guard. Around midnight, a pilot aboard the 810-foot tanker, Aframax River, notified Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders that the tanker was on fire near the Intercontinental Terminals Company. It […]

  • New Research to Help Understand Future Coastal Changes (USA)

    18 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    A new resource about Fire Island, N.Y. is now at the fingertips of coastal managers, planners and the public that will be useful for understanding and predicting future change on the island. The United States Geological Survey created the public website that details a decade’s worth of research that focuses on changes to the beaches […]

  • Autronica Wins Prelude FLNG Contract, Australia

    25 January 2013
    Project & Tenders

    Autronica Fire and Security AS, Division Oil & Gas, said it has recently been awarded the prestigious contract from Emerson for the delivery of integrated fire and gas detection on the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas facility.   Autronica Fire and Security AS, headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, is one of the world’s leading suppliers […]

  • PSA Norway audits Eni’s Goliat FPSO management. Finds room for improvement

    9 May 2014

    From 10 to 12 March 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the work of Eni Norge AS (Eni) to ensure compliance with the requirement to establish and implement technical and operational barriers in the development project for Goliat FPSO. The objective of the audit was to monitor that Eni, […]

  • MHI and Nusantara Power to accelerate decarbonisation of Indonesia’s energy systems

    23 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and PT. PLN Nusantara Power, a sub-holding of Indonesia’s state-owned electricity provider PT. PLN (Persero), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commence three technical studies related to co-firing of less carbon-intensive fuels at power plants owned and operated by Nusantara Power. According to MHI, a pair of studies […]

  • Top News of The Week March 31-April 4, 2014

    6 April 2014

    USA: Explosion Causes Fire at Plymouth LNG Facility Williams Partners said that an explosion and fire occurred on Monday at the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Plymouth, Washington. The facility is owned by Williams Partners’ subsidiary Northwest Pipeline. Zeus: Shell’s LNG Fuel Withdrawal in North America Offers Lessons for Smaller Suppliers Despite entering […]

  • Burning Car Carrier Abandoned off Philippine Coast

    17 June 2019

    The vessel caught fire late on Sunday.

  • USA: FERC Issues Report on Land Based LNG Spills

    28 January 2013

    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has prepared a report, in Docket No. AD13-4-000, examining potential changes to LNGFIRE3, the solid flame model required by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s regulations at Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 193 for predicting radiant heat from liquefied natural gas (LNG) pool fires on […]

  • Humber Coastguard Rescues Crewman from ‘Norfolk Tern’ (UK)

    20 January 2014

    A crewman has been airlifted to hospital this morning after a fire on board a wind farm support vessel 4 nautical miles off Great Yarmouth. Humber Coastguard received a call from the vessel Norfolk Tern just after 8am reporting they had a fire in their starboard engine. They had managed to bring it under control, […]