Tag: fire onboard

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) presents an incident of a passenger vessel fire and evacuation, in order to draw lessons learned and point out the importance of proper firefighting systems. 

The EU-funded research project "OVERHEAT- Innovative Strategies for Containership Fires Prevention and Management" was recently launched to promote technologies that aid in the prevention and management of fires on container ships.

According to Port of Houston, two crew members have lost their lives, and another has sustained injuries following a fire incident on a vessel at the Port , Texas, on 8th January 2024.

Cargo vessel Genius Star XI experienced a fire in cargo hold No. 1, off the Alaska port of Dutch Harbor on Christmas Day. 

Transport Malta has published an investigation report regarding an incident that took place on 14 September 2022, when MV Mona was transiting the Aegean Sea, en route to a dry dock in Tuzla, Türkiye, when a fire broke out in the engine-room, with flames observed rising above the main engine’s cylinder unit no. 2.

Cargo vessel Genius Star XI experienced a fire in cargo hold No. 1, off the Alaska port of Dutch Harbor on Christmas Day, en route from Vietnam to San Diego.

Russia reported on Monday, December 25th, that emergency crews successfully extinguished a fire on the Sevmorput, a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship docked in Murmansk.

In an article originally published on Gard, Oliver Goossens, Lawyer at Gard, Singapore, argues that the English High Court’s decision in the case of the MSC FLAMINIA provides useful guidance on which claims are subject to limitation, and which are not.

NorthStandard P&I Club presents the risk involved with bulk shipments of scrap ferrous metal, as explained by Dr Neil Sanders of Burgoynes Consulting Scientists and Engineers.

Gard published that in the past few months, has received several queries on the safe carriage of battery energy storage systems (BESS) on ships and highlights some of the key risks, regulatory requirements, and recommendations for shipping such cargo.