Cebu Cargo Ship Catches Fire
The crew of the Felicity Ace has been rescued, but the fate of as many as 4000 cars on board—including around 1100 Porsche vehicles—is currently unknown.
The fire is assumed to come from a vehicle onboard the ship. The crew escaped the ship using lifeboats, before being rescued by Km Samudera Jaya Abadi. Image Credits: Highlight – YouTube The Indonesian authorities had dispatched a search and rescue team, who found the ship at some 18 nau...
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A portion of the Carnival Freedom ship's exhaust funnel broke off and crashed onto the deck below, after a fire broke out Saturday inside the smokestack. Carnival / Randalyn Rogers A fire response team was activated quickly to put out the blaze once it broke out, as the Freedom's capta...
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - A fully laden Bahamas-registered car freighter stranded on rocks off an outlying Japanese island caught fire yesterday, causing residents to flee the smoke, and was leaking fuel.The 56,835-ton Hual Europe with an all-Filipino crew of 24 caught fire around 5:30 a.m....
The containership “X-PRESS PEARL” last week caught fire at anchorage about 10 nautical miles off the Colombo Harbour, Sri Lanka, and the images shared Tuesday show the situation has worsened. Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) on Friday dispatched a Bell-212 helicopter that dropped 425kg of dry ...
local time, the Reggio Calabria port authority received a mayday call reporting an uncontrollable fire in the engine room aboard Bolivian-flagged freighter Bellatrix, in the Mediterranean Sea, about 180 miles southeast from Catania, Italy's Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard assumed coordination of...
JAKARTA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to three with nine others injured as a ship caught fire in Karimun district of Indonesia's Kepulauan Riau province on Wednesday, a senior disaster official said. The inferno happened when Ro-Ro KMP Sembilang ship was being repaired in a ...
A cargo ship whose nationality is Panama caught fire while docking at Cai Lan port in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province late Tuesday. No casualties have been reported, said local authorities on Wednesday.