Lithium ion batteries stored in a container on board the Chinese vessel Cosco Pacific were not declared as dangerous goods, said Container News sources.
According to a container ship fire safety expert the lithium batteries on Cosco Pacific were not declared and were therefore incorrectly stowed, “The ship was lucky to have escaped a major incident,” said the source.
Video footage of the fire has...
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Cosco Pacific’s cargo hold fire caused by spontaneous combustion of misdeclared lithium batteries.
A fire broke out on board Cosco Pacific, off Indian coast.
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According to Maritime Bulletin, COSCO container vessel reported fire, while it was en route from Port Klang in Malaysia to Nhava Sheva (India), on January 04, 2020. Fire erupted on a container (or more) of COSCO PACIFIC. The mega boxship was underway in Arabian sea off southwest Indian coast.
It is the first major fire accident, that is reported in...
Chinese container vessel Cosco Pacific was forced to divert to the Sri Lankan Port of Colombo as fire within its cargo hold took hold destroying two container loads of cargo.
Port of Colombo MD Captain Athula Hewavitharana, told Container News that by the time the vessel arrived at the port the fire had been extinguished by the vessel’s CO2 fire suppressant system.
“It was a fire that started at sea and it was brought under control using the cargo hold’s CO2 system, but two containers were...