Tag: fire onboard

IMCA recently released its Safety Flashes for October, summarizing a case of a serious fire in an accommodation onboard a vessel at anchor.

National Transportation Safety Board released an accident report focusing on the engine room fire aboard fishing vessel Master Dylan.

The American P&I Club informs about an engine room egress, when a fire broke out onboard a vessel.

Container caught fire after explosion in cargo hold of container ship MORNING VINAFCO, docked at Ben Nghe, Ho Chin Minh, Vietnam, in the afternoon Sep 4. 

Five workers were killed and six injured in Sunday's fire on an offshore platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico operated by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) that cut about a quarter of Mexico's oil production.

Belgium's FEBIMA issued an investigation report on a fire onboard the Trail Suction Hopper Dredger 'UILENSPIEGEL' while moored at Lisnave shipyard, Portugal, in January 2021. Investigation established that insulation panels contaminated with oil were installed during the re-assembly of the main engine after dry-dock.

UK MAIB issued an investigation report on the cargo tank explosion and fire onboard the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland in September 2019. The investigation stressed that heat transfer from other cargoes was not fully appreciated and that the styrene monomer temperature was not monitored. 

X-Press Feeders, operator of the containership X-Press Pearl, made an initial payment of $3.6 million to the Sri Lankan government.

An explosion and subsequent fire hit DP World’s Jebel Ali terminal in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night, probably caused by a container holding flammable material onboard a ship, local authorities said.

A fire on the ocean surface called the “Eye of fire” that erupted of July 2 in the Gulf of Mexico near Pemex’ Ku Maloob Zaap oil development was put out.