A Barbados-flagged bulk carrier successfully repelled two pirate attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, ensuring crew safety and vessel security.

The Vietnamese Coast Guard is responding to a cargo fire aboard the container ship APL Vancouver off Vung Ro, Vietnam.

THE International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) is urging the industry to strengthen fire protection in the cargo area of container vessels; amend the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) by including active and/or passive fire protection onboard new containerships; and consider the need to upgrade fire fighting equipment on existing box ships

Sailors rescued after fire onshipThe Press AssociationThree sailors have been airlifted to hospital after suffering smoke inhalation from a fire on board theirship. The trio were evacuated from the Turkish...Cargoshipon fire off Kent coastBBC News175 haber makalesinin tümü »

THE fire aboard the 6,732-TEU MSC Flaminia is under control with flames extinguished in its No 4, No 5 and No 6 holds with the vessel last reported under tow in relatively calm seas headed for the UK coast.

Los Angeles TimesFire from tallship'scannon proves all too realLos Angeles TimesLaw enforcement officials said a crew member made an unfortunate mistake when the Amazing Grace cannon ran out of blanks that were to be fed into it and fired in the direction of crew members aboard the Bill of Rights, the other tallshiptaking part...2 Injured in Calif as TallShipFires Live RoundABC NewsBuckshot Wrecks TallShips' Battle ReenactmentNewserall 280 news articles »

Turkih tanker NAsZO S, with twelwe crew onboard, in the afternoon around 18:30, went up in flames.

Baltimore SunCause of cruiseshipfire remains a mysteryUSA TODAYSpeaking on board the vessel Thursday in advance of its return to service later today, Lutoff-Perlo said there was no indication the fire was caused by a mechanical failure. What is known is that the fire started in a mooring area near the back of the...CruiseShipBack In Baltimore After Fire, Repairs ContinueGadlingRegent orders newshipand touts it as most luxurious in cruisingTravel WeeklyNew£300mshipon order for luxury cruise line Regent Seven SeasMirror.co.ukWBAL Radio -Cruise Criticall 51 news articles »

Vancouver SunCanadianShip'sGuests Got Close-up of Fire BattleABC NewsGuests aboard a naval refuelingshipthought they were going to see some drills and learn more about life as a Canadian sailor on the Pacific. Instead, they got a firsthand view of their loved ones in action as the sailors battled an engine fire."We...Canadian navy considers scrapping fire-damaged BC-basedshipVancouver SunCanadian navyshiptowed to Hawaii after fireMilitary TimesGuests got close-up of Canadian sailors battling blaze onship; vessel being...U.S. News&World Reportall 264 news articles »

A spokesman for the Port Hedland Seafarers Centre said the blaze started on the MV Marigold, moored at Finucane Island, yesterday afternoon.

London, Sep 18 -- A press release, dated Sep 17, states: Investigations are ongoing to find the the cause of fire at the Lurssen Shipyard in Bremen, Germany

A groundbreaking white paper by Survitec has won the IBJ Safety in Maritime award, shining a spotlight on critical fire safety failures in the maritime industry.

FORTY-NINE are dead and more than 300 were injured in a Bangladesh container fire and explosions at container depot 40 kilometres near the port city of Chittagong, Reuters reported

A CONTAINIER fire at the Port of Los Angeles from March 4 has caused the US Coast Guard to inspect containers, with cargo mislabeling seeing lithium-ion batteries declared on the bill of lading as synthetic resins, reports Singapore's Splash 247

Nine firefighters responding to a fire aboard a ship in Florida have been hospitalized after the ship exploded, injuring eight and sending one to a hospital for heat exhaustion, authorities said.

A fire broke out in the engine room of fishing (general) Frosti (327 gt, built 2001), when the vessel was positioned 60 nautical miles north west of Aoalvik, on the north west corner of Iceland, at around 1500 hrs, on Oct

Trawler Solombala (782 gt, built 1988), experienced fire, while undergoing its repair works in the Port of Archangel, at 0800 hrs, today

London, Sep 18 -- A press release, dated Sep 17, states: Investigations are ongoing to find the the cause of fire at the Lurssen Shipyard in Bremen, Germany

MSC, the Swiss ocean carrier, is not liable for the explosion and losses related to the MSC Flaminia fire from July 2012 that claimed the lives of three crew members and destroyed thousands of cargo containers, New York District Court said in a verdict on September 10

Yesterday, Thursday, March 16, fire broke out on the Maersk Kensington container ship.

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Russian trawler on fire at Puerto de la Luz (Las Palmas)

Eight injured in fire aboard river cruise ship

Large scale fire alert due to smoke development in engine room

Passengers stay cool as ship crew put out fire

Formal investigation into ferry fire

Ferry on fire off Piombino

Fire in store extinguished by crew

Fire being investigated - hazardous cargo not affected

Fire and sexual assault delayed disembarkation of passengers

Cargo ship disabled after fire off Port aux Basques

Fishing vessel ablaze off Faroes

Russian naval warships and coastal troops conducted live fire exercises Monday in the country’s western Kaliningrad and Leningrad Regions, a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said.

The Maritime ExecutiveCargoShipWhich Reported Fire In Hold Docks At Dodge IslandCBS LocalMIAMI (CBSMiami)— Crews off-loaded dozens of cargo containers from a 650-footshipas firefighters stood-by at the Port of Miami Sunday, ready to walk into a risky situation after a fire broke out below deck. The cargoshipwhich reported a fire in...ContainerShipCatches Fire off MiamiThe Maritime Executiveall 4 news articles »

A fire aboard a Danish cargo ship off the coast of Norway was still burning early Sunday.

GCaptain (press release)VietnamShipbuildingto Fire 14000 Employees in Massive OverhaulGCaptain (press release)Sept. 18 (Bloomberg)— VietnamShipbuildingIndustry Group, the state company whose near-bankruptcy contributed to credit downgrades and banking system concerns, said it will fire 14,000 employees, or more than half of its workforce. The company ...and more »

ABC NewsPassengerShipReports Engine Fire: All OKABC NewsA tourshipcarrying more than 150 passengers detoured Friday evening to dock at a Seattle marina after fire was reported in an engine compartment as theshipreturned from a daylong trip to the San Juan Islands. No injuries were reported. The 159 ...and more »

Smoldering NOAAshipfire in SeattleThe Seattle TimesFire Department spokesman Kyle Moore tells KOMO Radio the fire is aboard a decommissioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationshipmoored near the NOAA office in the Sandpoint area of Seattle. He says the fire is in a storage...and more »

NPR (blog)Carnival cruiseshipto be towed after fire strands it in Gulf of MexicoCNN(CNN) -- A Carnival cruiseshipin the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 passengers and crew will be towed to port after a weekend engine fire left it dead in the water, a cruise line official said. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigorous arrived early...CruiseShipDrifts In Gulf Of Mexico, Will Be Towed To PortNPR (blog)Stranded Carnival CruiseShipPassengers Without Running Water or PowerABC NewsPassengers describe harsh conditions on CarnivalshipUSA TODAYTIME -MiamiHerald.com -Houston Chronicleall 119 news articles »

The 56th session of the IMO Fire Protection Sub-committee (FP56) took place this week. Of particular note was the ongoing work related to the‘Development of Measures to Prevent Explosions on Oil and Chemical Tankers Transporting Low-flash Point Cargoes’, which has been covered in this week’s bulletin – click here to the article. Other outcomes from the meeting concerned ‘Means of Escape from Mach...

Packed House at Concert to HelpShipBottom Fire DepartmentPatch.comCrowds packed the Surf City Fire Company building on Long Beach Boulevard to hear a number of bands perform for 10 hours straight - from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. - in support of the neighboringShipBottom company. The"Sandy Blows" concert, which requested a...

Houston ChronicleFirefighters still dousing two-day-old warehouse fire nearshipchannelHouston ChronicleFirefighters on Monday still were dousing hotspots and removing debris from the site of a four-alarm warehouse fire that started Saturday near the HoustonShipChannel, according to the Cloverleaf Volunteer Fire Department. Two firefighters were...ShipChannel fire goes to 3 alarmsMyFox Houstonall 13 news articles »

MISC Berhad (MISC) has confirmed that a fire broke out onboard its 38,000 DWT IMO II chemical/palm oil tanker, Bunga Alpinia at approximately 2.30am (local time) this morning.

Firefighting operations at the MSC FLAMINIA were resumed yesterday afternoon. Thanks to continuous cooling a further expansion of the fire could be prevented.

As of morning July 16 MSC Flaminia is drifting in mid-Atlantic in 47 52N  30 44W area with a large plume of smoke seen from passing vessels. One of the four injured crew died from heavy burns on board of MSC Stella, the remaining three were taken to Azores by helicopter, one of them being treated in intensive care.

A Maltese-flagged cargo ship with 14 crewmembers on board caught fire off Crimea in the Sea of Azov, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry reported on Sunday.

At about 0130 Moscow time Dec 15 2011 fire started in one of the crew’s cabins on board of nuclear icebreaker Vaygach.