The French container major, CMA CGM successfully installed HydroPen container firefighting system onboard 85 of its vessel fleet.
Namely, after 18 months of its launch, the HydroPen system was installed in CMA CGM’s fleet in order to fight container fires.
The HydroPen units have already been delivered to 85 vessels despite Covid-19 challenges. As Xavier Leclercq, Vice President, CMA Ships added:
Our policies and objectives are to continuously improve our safety performance proactively by setting up new standards and solutions. Whatever the circumstances, the priority for the CMA CGM Group is the safety of our crews and the goods transported for our clients.
As explained the system combines a standard firefighting hose with a drill to penetrate the container and then extinguish fire with water, foam or CO2. The system can be used above or below deck.
“When it comes to an expression of confidence in HydroPen, an order of this scale from a carrier of CMA CGM’s stature speaks for itself. For the safety of crew, cargo and the ship itself, container fires are best dealt with on board as quickly as possible, using a system whose true value comes from its being so easy to use”.
…Dorte Moeskjaer Hansen, VIKING Vice President Sales Regions, noted.
Concluding, CMA CGM has trialled the system in Marseille and onboard the vessel CMA CGM T Roosevelt with hands on training in Los Angeles.
