A group of liner operators and containership owners have come together to find better ways to fight fires on boxships.
The move follows a spate of high-profile blazes involving containerships, including the 10,106-teu APL Le Havre (built 2012), which caught fire off the coast of India on 9 August.
“These are the very big cases,” said Claas-Heye Diekmann, head of the Hamburg-based Container Ship Safety Forum (CSSF), which is spearheading the firefighting project.
