Ship Fires

OSLO, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Firefighters put out a blaze on a cargo ship loaded with military jet fuel early on Sunday, 13 hours after it broke out during

OSLO, Nov 16 (Reuters) – The 32 crew of a Danish cargo vessel on fire in the North Sea off Norway were trapped on board on Saturday night as

The MV Fernanda has lost its battle with an engine room fire and the ship will now head to a site for

New pictures released Monday by the Icelandic Coast Guard provide some more insight into damage caused by an engine room fire onboard the MV Fernanda off the

Icelandic Coast Guard crews continued fighting a fire onboard the MV Fernanda Friday evening into Saturday while west of Faxafloi, a bay located on the

The Icelandic Coast Guard continued its response Thursday to a fire onboard the Ro/Ro cargo ship Fernanda off the coast of

Coast Guard crews in Iceland have rescued 11 crewmembers from a ship which caught fire in heavy weather just south of the North Atlantic

By Reese Ewing and Fabiola Gomes SAO PAULO, Oct 18 (Reuters) – A fire ravaged Copersucar’s sugar terminal in Brazil on Friday, paralyzing

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — An oil tanker exploded while undergoing repairs at an eastern China shipyard, killing seven people, injuring one, and causing oil

A passing containership came to the rescue of 16 people Thursday who were forced to abandon a burning luxury yacht off the coast of Cairns,

An incorrect declaration of the contents – omitting that the contents were Dangerous Goods under the IMDG code - was a major contributing factor to a

Crews in South Africa responded over weekend to a fire that broke out in the cargo hold of a fully-laden containership which was at anchor just off the Port of

The Scarabeo 5, a 4th-generation semi-submersible drilling rig built in 1990 by Fincantieri for Saipem has caught fire today while drydocked at the Keppel

The Tanzanian-registered cargo ship MV Gold Star, loaded with an estimated 30 tons of cannabis, caught fire on Friday 6 September while in international waters

Maersk Line reports this morning that the fire on board the Maersk Kampala has finally been put out by the onboard fire-fighting teams with support from

It’s been three days since a fire broke out on board the containership Maersk Kampala just south of the Suez Canal and the crew on board has yet to

Update: 30 August Maersk Lines’s containership, Maersk Kampala is still on fire this morning according to a statement on Maersk Line’s website. The

India's navy chief held out little hope for survivors on a submarine after some of its weapons detonated accidentally and fire swept through it. The likely

UPDATE 2: 22 July Shipmanagement Company Leonhardt & Blumberg report that their container vessel MV “HANSA BRANDENBURG” is currently being

A fire believed to have originated in a container has left the Hansa Brandenburg containership burning and adrift in the Indian Ocean near the island of