The "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" suffered a fire in the evening of Nov 19, 2010, in the port of Rostock. A truck in the foreship region of deck IV had caught fire, the flames spread to another one. The 136 passengers on board were not hurt. It took the fire rescue two hours to tackle the fire which had been remarked 10 minutes before the ship berthed at Rostock coming from Trelleborg at 8.30 p.m. On board were 122 truck drivers, 12 car drivers and two pedestrians. All were safely disembarked. Also the cars could later be brought ashore. Cargo bound for Sweden on board the ship on the return voyage had to be re-routed.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern IMO 9131797, dwt 7800, built 1996, flag Germany, operator Scandlines AG.