{"id":4377,"date":"2020-01-25T23:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2020-01-25T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:17:42","slug":"bw-bulker-catches-fire-in-gulf-of-aden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/bw-bulker-catches-fire-in-gulf-of-aden\/4377\/","title":{"rendered":"BW Bulker Catches Fire in Gulf of Aden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A fire broke out onboard a Panamax bulk carrier while the ship was sailing in the Gulf of Aden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident involving the 82,600 dwt BW Acorn \u2014 operated by Denmark\u2019s BW Dry Cargo \u2014 occurred in the morning hours of January 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of the incident, the bulker was en route to the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ship\u2019s crew members managed to put the fire out several hours later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThere was a fire onboard BW Acorn today, which was contained within the engine room. Our Captain and crew are safe and accounted for, and no injury was reported,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0a BW spokesperson confirmed to World Maritime News, adding that the incident is now under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe will launch a full investigation the cause of the incident; and our immediate priorities are the safety of our crew and responders on the scene, and minimizing any impact on the environment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Built in Japan in 2010, BW Acorn flies the flag of the Isle of Man. BW Acorn, previously known as Meteor, became the first ship in BW Dry Cargo\u2019s fleet when the company was founded in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">World Maritime News Staff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post_share_buttons\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out onboard a Panamax bulk carrier while the ship was sailing in the Gulf of Aden. The incident involving the 82,600 dwt BW Acorn \u2014 operated by Denmark\u2019s BW Dry Cargo \u2014 occurred in the morning hours of January 24. At the time of the incident, the bulker was en route to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[1014,1015],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-bw-bulker","tag-gulf-of-aden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}