Nearly a week after a fire in its cargo hold, a general cargo ship owned by Taiwan’s Wisdom
Marine remains anchored in Broad Bay, near Alaska’s Dutch Harbor, said the US Coast
Guard on 2 January.
Around 4.40 am (local time) of 28 December 2023, the crew on the 2012-built 13,663 dwt
Genius Star XI alerted the US Coast Guard to fire in the cargo hold. At the time, Genius Star XI was 225 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor.
The Coast Guard directed Genius Star XI to continue toward Dutch Harbor while an...