A BIG fire at the Port of Savannah's Ocean Terminal was extinguished after consuming 1,800 tons of raw rubber, but operations at the nearby Savannah container port were unaffected, said the Georgia Ports Authority.
Local fire departments, along with the Air National Guard and Colonial Group, which operated Warehouse 3, extinguished the blaze after first building's fire wall contained it to 100,000 square feet of the building.
Ocean Terminal, some distance from the container facility, mostly handles breakbulk, ro-ro and military materiel from nearby Fort Stewart, the largest US Army establishment east of the Mississipi and principal staging area for Persian Gulf operations.
The port authority said monitoring by the Environmental Protection Agency has determined that air quality within the terminal and surrounding neighborhoods is acceptable under federal standards, reported American Shipper.
US Coast Guard deploying booms on the Savannah River to ensure that any discharge from the fire into the water was contained.
The Savannah and Garden City fire departments deployed a marine fire fighting pump able to draw 6,000 gallons of water per minute from the river through four kilometres of hose, the port authority said.
Panama springs N Korean weapons ship after it pays US$693,333 fine
THE Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has released North Korea's 13,990-dwt Chong Chon Gang after its owners paid a US$693,333 fine for carrying unauthorised weapons through the international waterway
"After receipt of payment, and in strict compliance with the process, the ACP authorised the release of the ship so that its representatives can have access to it immediately," said the canal authority.
The 35-member crew was detained when the general cargo ship was arrested in July for smuggling Cuban weapons under 10,000 tonnes of sugar, contrary to Regulations for Navigation in Canal Waters.
"In the case of the ship Chong Chon Gang, ACP competence was limited to the violation of the vessel to canal regulations, and is not related to any other fault outside Panama Canal jurisdiction," said the ACP communique,
The ship was carrying ageing Soviet weaponry in Cuba's arsenal, which one Canadian military expert, a professor at Royal Military College, Kingston, speculated they had been taken to North Korea for repairs because that country still had large stocks of outdated Soviet gear.
Cuba later acknowledged it was sending 240 tonnes of "obsolete" weapons, including two MiG jets, 15 MiG engines and nine anti-aircraft missiles, to be repaired in North Korea and returned to Cuba.
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10 February 2014 - 21:39
1,800 tonnes of raw rubber ablaze, but put out in Port of Savannah
A BIG fire at the Port of Savannah's Ocean Terminal was extinguished after consuming 1,800 tons of raw rubber, but operations at the nearby Savannah container port were unaffected, said the Georgia Ports Authority.
PORTS
10 February 2014 - 21:39
1,800 tonnes of raw rubber ablaze, but put out in Port of Savannah
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