Tag: fire onboard

On October 13, a fire broke out on two ships carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) near Kutubdia Point in the Bay of Bengal, Cox's Bazar.

A fire broke out on the 73-meter-long German oil and chemical tanker "Annika" in the Bay of Mecklenburg, between Kühlungsborn and Warnemünde, on the morning of October 11, 2024.

The operations to extinguish the eighteen fire hotspots that were burning on the Greek-flagged tanker Sounion were successfully completed on Sunday, October 6th.

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB references a case in which a bulk carrier's cargo of animal feed pellets caught fire due to water ingress and condensation. 

At least four crew members have lost their lives following a fire caused by an explosion on the Banglar Jyoti, a petroleum-carrying tanker, at Chattogram port in Bangladesh.

The Swedish Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for September, describing an engine room fire incident onboard a bulk carrier.

A fire aboard a commercial iron ore vessel, the Cuyahoga, docked at the Port of Ashtabula in March 2024, has revealed significant safety lapses by South Marine Systems, an Ohio-based company responsible for maintenance work on the vessel.

EUNAVFOR ASPIDES has announced the successful towing of the tanker Sounion to a safe location for further firefighting and salvage operations.

A total 15-member crew were successfully rescued off South Africa’s southern Cape seas on the afternoon of 12 September after their vessel, an offshore supply vessel caught on fire and had to be abandoned. 

On 2nd September, the European Union's mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, announced that the salvage operation for the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently targeted by Houthi militants aligned with Iran, is set to commence.