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Fire erupts on Hapag-Lloyd boxship bound for Canada
In a shocking start to the year for marine casualties German boxline Hapag-Lloyd has reported its 7,510 teu ship Yantian Express suffered a fire in one of its containers onboard off Bermuda on Thursday. The fire since spread and has yet to be contained despite the master’s efforts to change course to lessen the wind speed. Firefighting continues and the ship is continuing in a northeasterly direction towards its destination, Halifax in Canada.
This has been a bad week for marine accidents with a big fire on a Japanese car carrier in the Pacific, many boxes spilled off an MSC boxship in the North Sea and a severe fire engulfing a general cargo ship anchored in Istanbul.