The Naples, Italy, headquartered Grimaldi Group records that a fire that burst out aboard its RO/RO vessel Grande Europa throughout the evening of the 15 May, while she was cruising concerning 25 miles from Palma de Mallorca.
Built in 1998, the Italian- flagged vessel had actually left the port of Salerno in the mid-day of May 13, bound to the Spanish port ofValencia On board there were 25 team participants as well as a freight containing 1,687 cars (cars and trucks, vans, vehicles, excavators, and so on), the large bulk of which were all new, as well as 49 containers including mostly foodstuff.
The alarm system was offered by the team at 00:45 a.m., after a fire burst out on deck 3 that was totally snuffed out by the team itself after concerning 45 mins. At 04:00 a.m., a 2nd fire was found on deck 8, which infected deck 9. Again the team quickly interfered with the firefighting tools aboard.
The Master of the vessel quickly educated the experienced Italian as well as Spanish authorities in addition to the head office of the Grimaldi Group in Naples of both fires.
For preventive factors, at 09:30 a.m on May 15, fifteen team participants were left by a Spanish Coast Guard helicopter that moved them to the Spanish Navy ship Martin Posadillo
The firefighting procedures proceeded additionally with help a Spanish firefighting yank. At 02:00 p.m. the fire was lastly produced as well as the Grande Europa was helped by a yank that hauled it to the port of Palma de Mallorca, while she still had totally functional engines. The vessel got here in Palma at 06.00 a.m., today.
Preliminary examinations by the Grimaldi Group recommend that both fires began with 2 various brand-new cars stored aboard, and afterwards infected the various other close-by devices.
BRAND-NEW CONTROLS REQUIRED
Following this most recent instance of a fire that bursting out on cars moved by freight vessels, the Grimaldi Group is releasing a charm for more much more rigid controls as well as guidelines on both rolling freight devices as well as containers.
In certain, Grimaldi Group wishes to see even more controls on vehicle batteries, which commonly trigger short-circuits aboard vessels, in addition to in port terminals. It is additionally asks for the overall restriction of the existence of individual results in used cars continued RO/RO vessels.
Finally, when it come to containers, IMO is prompted to make required the qualification by a category culture of the appropriate padding of containers lugging hazardous items.
