Tag: fire onboard

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.

Fire broke out onboard the general cargo ship URA, as it was berhed at La Coruna, Spain, in the afternoon of June 29.

The insurers of the X-Press Pearl, the container ship which sustained fire and sank off Sri Lanka in early June causing major pollution, have agreed to pay approximately Rs 720 Million US ($3.6 million) as compensation to the Sri Lankan fishermen affected by the disaster.

One crew member is reportedly missing after the container ship MSC MESSINA suffered a fire in its engine room while underway in the Indian ocean in the afternoon of 24 June. 

Cargo of pellets on board the general cargo ship Kirsten B caught fire on June 23 at Kiel.

A fire has reprotedly broken out onboard the container ship MSC Teresa, in its engine room, on June 16, in the English Channel.

Following the fire incident onboard the Scandinavian Star ferry in 1990, a Norwegian support group for survivors of the disaster has criticised the lack of reporting with the IMO as a failure to learn from the tragedy.

The captain of X-Press Pearl that was arrested on June 14, appeared before the court, where he was granted bail.

Sri Lankan authorities have reportedly arrested the captain of the ill-fated MV X-Press Pearl container ship which caught fire off Port of Colombo last month, causing major marine pollution.