FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin Hong Kong Merchant Shipping draws lessons learned from a serious fire accident that occured onboard a container ship while navigating in tropical waters. The incident While the ship was navigating in tropical waters at night, the duty crew on the bridge noticed light smoke emanating from the forward deck and responded promptly. Shortly afterwards, the assigned crew arrived at the scene and discovered flames emitting from the bottom of a deck container stowed on the first tier above hatch no.1. RelatedNews When familiarity replaces verification: Learning from the Heilan Star explosion Fire contained onboard chemical tanker carrying sulfuric acid off Norway var jnews_module_21373900_0_6a6d9cd02b832 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21373900","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"2969,74,1168,606","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image