FIRES

Nikola asks customers to return electric trucks at risk of fires

Nikola Corp. is asking dealers and customers to return battery-electric trucks under recall for possible battery fires to its Coolidge, Arizona plant despite the company still working on a fix.

“We’re bringing them back to Coolidge for repairs to be made instead of in the field,” spokesman Dan Passe told FreightWaves in an email Saturday.

“We are able to keep a very close eye on all non-used vehicles (either from inventory or customers who are not running them daily) if they are on site in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nikola-asks-customers-to-return-electric-trucks-at-risk-of-fires

Underhood fires prompt Navistar recall of 44,887 older trucks

Navistar is recalling about 45,000 trucks from the 2016-2020 model years because of three under hood fires related to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.

The 44,887 vehicles recalled are all susceptible to potential fires. Navistar investigated three fires before determining that low voltage and amperage to the power distribution module (PDM) was the likely cause. The first fire occurred in January 2022.

A wiring terminal that does not meet the continuous electrical current load...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/underhood-fires-prompt-navistar-recall-of-44887-older-trucks

Allianz: Prevention measures are crucial to tackling battery-fire risks

While incentives to persuade drivers out of their gas-guzzlers and into electrical vehicles (EVs) may be good news for the climate, they should also be a wakeup call to vessel operators. A key component of EVs, and of all electronic devices is highly inflammable lithium-ion (L-ion) batteries. This, says marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), is increasingly impacting shipping safety as demonstrated by a number of fires on vessels such as RO/RO car carriers and...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/safety-and-security/allianz-prevention-measures-are-crucial-to-tackling-battery-fire-risks/

High-wind threat for truckers in Plains, Northeast

Truckers will face more dangerous winds Thursday across the northern Plains, mainly in Montana.

Strong gusts have been sweeping across Big Sky Country most of the week, flipping 18-wheelers and kicking up dust and dirt. While the threat Thursday won’t be as widespread, the National Weather Service still has high-wind warnings posted for parts of northern, central and southern Montana.

Once again we have a tractor trailer blown over near Browning, MT. High winds are expected for the rest of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/high-wind-threat-for-truckers-in-plains-northeast

5 fires lead Daimler to recall certain 2022 Freightliner Cascadias

Daimler Trucks North America is recalling a few hundred of its flagship 2022 Freightliner Cascadias after five fires caused by a misdirected exhaust tip led to the melting of underbody components.

The issue is expected to affect less than 3% of the recalled trucks built between April 1 and July 12 at DTNA’s Cleveland, North Carolina, manufacturing plant. There have been no known crashes or injuries.

On vehicles built with a Cummins engine and battery boxes mounted between the frame rail, the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/5-fires-lead-daimler-to-recall-certain-2022-freightliner-cascadias

GSCW chat recap: Weather impacts on supply chains

This fireside chat recap is from Day 6 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 6 focuses on global maritime logistics.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How weather impacts supply chains

DETAILS: 2020 was a record year for weather disasters in the United States and shipping activity was impacted by those disasters. How do shippers navigate extreme weather events, especially as a changing climate moves to make disasters a more regular occurrence?

SPEAKER: Korby Keeney, vice president of shipping and...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gscw-recap-weather-impacts-on-supply-chains

TT Talk: focus on fires

TT Talk: focus on fires

Some may romanticise about camp fires and hot chocolate. All too often fires are in reality traumatising and devastating. None more so than those encountered through the global supply chain, exacerbated by the volumes and values at stake, and the lives that are lost in seeking to control them. Stakeholders – industry and governments – need to do better. I hope you find these articles useful. Peregrine Storrs-FoxRisk Management Director, TT Club
Ship fires often...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/02/16/tt-talk-focus-on-fires/

Fire on board the Grande Europa

The Grimaldi Group announces that its ro/ro vessel Grande Europa was hit by a fire that broke out on board during the night of the 15th May, while she was sailing about 25 miles from Palma de Mallorca.

Built in 1998, the Italian-flagged unit owned by the Neapolitan group had left the port of Salerno in the afternoon of Monday 13th May, bound to the Spanish port of Valencia. On board there were 25 crew members and a cargo consisting of 1,687 vehicles (cars, vans, trucks, excavators, etc), the...

https://container-news.com/fire-on-board-the-grande-europa/

Ship operators raise concerns over string of vessel fires (The Guardian)

The international shipping industry is currently wrestling with a spate of fires aboard vessels at sea in recent months that have crippled several big cargo ships, killed a number of seafarers and cost companies and their customers hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

The latest blaze came on March 10, when a nearly 31,000-ton combined container and automobile carrier caught fire in the Bay of Biscay off the eastern coast of France, leading to the rescue of 27 crew members by a British...

https://container-news.com/ship-operators-raise-concerns-vessel-fires/

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