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The American Club provides lessons learned from an incident where a general cargo vessel’s generator experienced a catastrophic failure while underway resulting in a fire that spread immediately to the bilges under the generator.

In 2020, there was an approximate average of one fire every two weeks onboard ships, while fire/explosion remained the third most common cause of ship total losses (11%) over the past decade.

Afte the cargo and fire loss from Zim Kingston, Canada will usie a barge crane to get rid of debris from impaired container cells.

On November 7, the containership MSC Shannon sustained an engine room fire in the Gulf of Finland, disabling the shipping, causing a large-scale emergency response. 

Following the fire onboard ZIM Kingston, Transportation Safety Board of Canada is deploying a team to investigate the situation.

Standard Club and David Townsend, Principle fire investigator at Andrew Moore & Associates Ltd released a loss prevention alert focusing on container fires, while making some suggestions for improvement.

Latest information reports that more than a hundred containers fell off MV Zim Kingston. The earlier number reported was 40.

Following the recent fire incident onboard Zim Kingston containership, Canadian Coast Guard informed that firefighting tugboats continue to operate to prevent renewed flareups.

Following the fire incident onboard the Zim Kingston containership, technical experts are about to board the vessel and evaluate the causes of the accident.

The containership Zim Kingston lost 40 containers overboard on October 22, off the Juan de Fuca Strait, between Canada and the US south of Vancouver Island.