Ardent had Caribbean Fantasy covered
AUGUST 29, 2016 — The 561 ft cruise ferry Caribbean Fantasy which caught fire off Puerto Rico on August 17 is covered by an OPA-90, Salvage and Marine Fire Fighting “SMFF” coverage
AUGUST 29, 2016 — The 561 ft cruise ferry Caribbean Fantasy which caught fire off Puerto Rico on August 17 is covered by an OPA-90, Salvage and Marine Fire Fighting “SMFF” coverage
AUGUST 29, 2016 — The 561 ft cruise ferry Caribbean Fantasy which caught fire off Puerto Rico on August 17 is covered by an OPA-90, Salvage and Marine Fire Fighting “SMFF” coverage
AUGUST 21, 2016 — The cruise ferry Caribbean Fantasy was moored safely Saturday at Pier 15 in San Juan Harbor. Salvage and fire fighting teams boarded the vessel Friday to assess the
AUGUST 19, 2016 — As response efforts continued, the Coast Guard said yesterday that the fire remained active aboard the 561-foot passenger ferry vessel Caribbean Fantasy approximately half a mile off of
JULY 22, 2016 — A French marine safety investigation report into the November 18, 2015 fire on board the Compagnie du Ponant expedition cruise ship Le Boréal, near the Falkland Islands, finds
MAY 3, 2016 — Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is reporting that a fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning, May 3, at the Suez Canal Container Terminal, Egypt, following
MARCH 22, 2016 — Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, reports that it has cooperated with insulation system manufacturers to develop the world’s first flame-retarding insulation for LPG cargo tanks.
MARCH 16, 2015 — The Coast Guard reports that responders have extinguished a fire that broke out Tuesday on an oil production platform in Berry Lake Canal in Bayou Sorrel, Iberville Parish,
NOVEMBER 11, 2015 — South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor has ordered a halt to work on five LPG ships under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s Okpo shipyard following
It is the second fatal blaze at the shipyard in just a few months and there appear to be close parallels in the two incidents.
Two people died in an August 24 fire onboard an LPG tanker under construction at the yard and, in that fire too, another seven were injured.
Today’s fire, like the earlier one, was reportedly aboard a gas carrier and in both cases sparks from a welder’s torch were initially identified as the likely cause.