As the fire-ravaged Maersk Honam completes discharge at Jebel Ali, nearly three months after the 15,262 teu ship caught fire in the Arabian Sea, taking the lives of five crew members, there are fears of more ULCV blazes.
The cause of the fire will not be known until the investigation is complete, but evidence from numerous previous containership fires suggests the blaze emanated from a misdeclared – and thus incorrectly stowed – container of dangerous …

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