Ship fire

2 dead after fire aboard container ship at Port Houston

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Two crew members died and a third was injured after a fire aboard a container ship at Port Houston.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2-dead-after-fire-aboard-container-ship-at-port-houston

Maintenance error led to $3.8 million Washington State Ferry engine failure

Insufficient tightening of a bolt during an engine overhaul on the Washington State Ferry Wenatchee led to a catastrophic engine failure with expensive consequences, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report.

In the April 22, 2021, incident, the Wenatchee’s No. 3 main suffered a failure that saw components from the engine ejected and a fire breaking out in the ship’s main engineroom.

The Wenatchee, a 1998-built, 460.2 foot long car/passenger ferry was on a sea trial in...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/maintenance-error-led-to-3-8-million-washington-state-ferry-engine-failure/

Felicity Ace car carrier fire set to push up marine insurance costs

Volkswagen AG has come far from the days of the beloved air-cooled bug. These days its portfolio includes brands such as Bentley and Lamborghini. That means that the fire still burning aboard the MOL car carrier Felicity Ace could soon join the list of very expensive maritime casualties, pushing up the costs of marine insurance.

On February 16, the car carrier was en route for the Port of Davisville, R.I., from Emden, Germany with a shipment of Volkswagen AG luxury vessels when a fire broke out...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/felicity-ace-car-carrier-fire-set-to-push-up-marine-insurance-costs/

1 Crew of Boxship Tests Positive for Covid 19, Firefighting Continues

  • One of the two injured crew members of the X-Press Pearl containership, which remains ablaze off Colombo port, Sri Lanka, has tested positive for COVID-19.
  • The two crew members, who received leg injuries during their evacuation from the ship on the morning of Tuesday, May 25th, remain in hospital in stable condition.
  • Efforts to extinguish the fire on board are ongoing with three firefighting tugs, helicopters and the Sri Lankan Navy and Indian coastguard on scene.

A recent Offshore Energy news...

https://mfame.guru/1-crew-of-boxship-tests-positive-for-covid-19-firefighting-continues/

GA declarations retreat as clients await boxes from Maersk Elba and ONE Apus

MSC has advised its customers it had taken an “exceptional decision”: to cover the costs of repairs, following a fire onboard the 13,492 teu Maersk Elba at the end of December, in order to avoid General Average.
The carrier said it wanted “to avoid additional costs or delays” for its customers.
The 2011-built vessel, deployed on Maersk’s AE1 + TP1 and MSC’s Shogun + Pearl Asia-North Europe and transpacific loop within the …

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https://theloadstar.com/ga-declarations-retreat-as-clients-await-boxes-from-maersk-elba-and-one-apus/

Maritime History Notes: Beirut blast echoes Texas City catastrophe

Maritime History Notes

On Aug. 4, Beirut experienced tremendous death and destruction when a notoriously dangerous cargo caught fire and exploded in the seaport. According to investigators, the cause of the devastation was 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port warehouse.

The commodity arrived at the Port of Beirut in 2013 from the country of Georgia on board the bulk ship Rhosus. While it was destined for Mozambique for use as fertilizer, Lebanese authorities seized the financially troubled vessel and...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/maritime-history-notes-beirut-blast-echoes-texas-city-catastrophe

Drone Equipped With Thermal Camera Helps Fire Crews Put Out Ship Fire

Drone equipped with a thermal camera helped fire crews to the hottest areas of a burning ship to help maintain its structural integrity, reports DroneDJ.

Maintain ship’s structural integrity

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department (JFRD) used Drone with a thermal camera to direct fire crews to the hottest areas of a burning ship to help maintain its structural integrity. 

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department posted the images on its Twitter account.

Details about the incident

The M/V...

https://mfame.guru/drone-equipped-with-thermal-camera-helps-fire-crews-put-out-ship-fire/

Turbocharger breakdown disables Maersk container ship

The Laura Maersk was being towed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday after an engine room fire that injured one crew member.

The container ship was en route from Algeciras, Spain, to Elizabeth on Thursday night when there was a “severe turbocharger breakdown in the engine room,” said Tom Boyd, media relations manager for Maersk North America. 

“A minor fire was promptly extinguished” and the crew member was medevaced by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, Boyd said.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/turbocharger-breakdown-disables-maersk-container-ship

Comment: Working together to mitigate the risk of containership fires

Two new initiatives show how the box shipping industry is now working together to tackle a major safety issue for ships and crews.
Fires onboard containerships continue to make the headlines, with costly and sometimes tragic consequences. Indeed, so bad has the problem become that carriers and forwarders have warned shippers of the potential consequences of hazardous or dangerous cargo being mis-declared.
Dangerous goods, particularly when not properly identified or accounted for, …

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https://theloadstar.com/comment-working-together-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-containership-fires/

Better education on cargo declarations needed to prevent more containership fires

After the first boxship fire of the year was deemed to have been caused by misdeclared lithium batteries, forwarders have warned that shippers need to be better educated about cargo declarations, or face increased regulation.
According to Chinese shipping line Cosco, the fire onboard its 10,000 teu Cosco Pacific this month was caused by lithium batteries falsely declared as spare parts.
Two containers were destroyed and a number of adjacent boxes damaged. …

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https://theloadstar.com/better-education-on-cargo-declarations-needed-to-prevent-more-containership-fires/

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