Fire Incidents

  A fatal fire on board a Japanese ferry continues to burn off the coast of Japan five days after it first started. The 11,401-ton Sunflower Daisetsu

  Freedom of the Seas captain Ron Holmes addressed his passengers over the ship’s CCTV following last week’s fire on board the ship as it

  A Liberia-flagged containership is on fire in the East China Sea off the Japanese island of Kuchinoshima. Japanese media reports say that the

  Newly formed marine services company Ardent and a salvage and diving firm from Spain have been contracted to remove oil from a sunken fishing

A transporter ship that caught fire off the coast of Essex has arrived in Southampton. The American crew of the RoRo M/V Courage are reported safe after

A ship’s crew has been tackling a blaze on a transporter carrying cars and US military vehicles. The UK MCA has reported a fire was reported at 22:00 BST

Update: The platform fire continues to burn Friday in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Louisiana coast.  The Coast Guard has updated that the maximum

Firefighters in Scotland worked overnight to extinguish a blaze aboard a Fugro offshore survey vessel while docked at Peterhead Port, north of Aberdeen. The

The fire-scorched ferry is finally headed for Segunto, Spain more than a week after the ship burst into flames while crossing the Mediterranean Sea. The fire

A giant Hanjin containership suffered a fire Friday while underway just south of the Suez Canal. Local media has identified the ship as the UK-flagged Hanjin

Spanish emergency services safely evacuated around 150 people from a burning ferry crossing the Mediterranean from the island of Mallorca to the Spanish port

An oil slick has been spotted in the water near the Canary Islands that is believed to be from a Russian fishing trawler that sank in the area last

A large dock fire in Squamish, British Columbia on Thursday caused thick black smoke to blanket the town and forced authorities to issue a Shelter-In-Place

A Russian fishing trawler that caught fire Saturday has sunk off the Canary Islands. Spain’s Salvamento Maritimo reports that the trawler Oleg

Update (April 15, 2015): Russian Trawler Oleg Naydenov Sinks After Fire Spanish authorities are working to save a Russian fishing trawler 4 days after it was

The mayor of Santos suspended on Friday operations at a fuel storage warehouse in Brazil after a week-long fire at the facility operated by Ultracargo slowed

A nuclear submarine caught fire in a shipyard in Russia's northern province of Arkhangelsk on Tuesday but there were no weapons on board, Russian news agencies

A fire at a fuel storage facility run by Ultracargo near Santos, Brazil's largest port, spread further on Saturday as it entered its third day despite

Eighty firefighters were battling a fire at a fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo near Brazil's port of Santos, Latin America's largest, the local

Teekay's Petrojarl Knarr FPSO has been hit by a small fire less than a week after producing its first oil from the Knarr field in the North Sea offshore