Self-Igniting Charcoal ID’d as Source of Two Containership Fires – gCaptain
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Investigators in Germany are calling on the International Maritime Organization to update regulations related to the carriage of charcoal cargoes in containers after separate fires on board two containerships.
In both cases, the self-ignition of charcoal cargoes was found to be the source of the fires.
The fires broke out on board the Panamanian-flagged MSC Katrina on November 2015 and on board the German-flagged Ludwigshafen Express on February 2016.
In each case, the charcoal cargoes were loaded in bulk in containers originating from Borneo, Indonesia and destined for the same consignee in France.
#auto-inflammation du charbon, transporté en #conteneurs …