Tag: fire safety measures

The American Club informs about an incident where crewmembers extinguished the fire that was smoldering in the generator exhaust lagging.

With an increasing requirement globally to minimise carbon emissions, car carrier charter rates, particularly regarding transporting EVs are soaring, argues Ansuman Ghosh, Marine Engineer, UK Club.

The American Club provides lessons learned from an incident where a general cargo vessel’s generator experienced a catastrophic failure while underway resulting in a fire that spread immediately to the bilges under the generator.

MPA Singapore released a circular to inform shipping of the revised requirements on maintenance, testing and inspection of fire protection systems.

In 2020, there was an approximate average of one fire every two weeks onboard ships, while fire/explosion remained the third most common cause of ship total losses (11%) over the past decade.

Standard Club and David Townsend, Principle fire investigator at Andrew Moore & Associates Ltd released a loss prevention alert focusing on container fires, while making some suggestions for improvement.

In the latest series of Safety Flashes, IMCA summarizes two cases where the fire-fighting equipment was not in an appropriate condition.

A part of its Safety Flashes, IMCA summarizes an incident where the catering crew onboard ship, was unfamiliar with firefighting systems and emergency stops.

An underrated transformer was installed, causing overheating and thermal degradation of the transformer which subsequently tripped the breaker and activated the vessel’s fire alarm. As part of its Safety Flashes, IMCA provided lessons learned from the incident.

Following the NTSB investigation into the fatal fire and loss of the passenger vessel Conception off California in September 2019, AMSA informed that it will consider the NTSB report in full when reviewing the current regulatory requirements for domestic commercial vessels.