The CCNI Arauco is a large
container ship that experienced a major fire in the
Port of Hamburg on September 1, 2016.
[1]
The vessel was only a year old, having been built in the
Philippines, in 2015, at the
Hanjin Subic Shipyard.
[2]
It took four days to extinguish the fire. [3] [4] Authorities took the risk of flooding her holds, and breaking her back, due to thermal shock, when local fireboats couldn't extinguish the fire.
feature | value |
---|---|
length | 300 metres (980 ft) |
beam | 49 metres (161 ft) |
draft | 11.9 metres (39 ft) |
deadweight tonnage | 112,588 tonnes |
gross tonnage | 95,138 tonnes |
container capacity | 9000 Twenty-foot equivalent unit containers |
The latest criticism was in September when the 112,588dwt container ship CCNI Arauco was damaged in a fire at Hamburg's Burchardkai Container Terminal. The ship is now undergoing three months of repair at Hamburg's Blohm + Voss shipyard.
The thick smoke covered the vessel and container terminal in Hamburg. The crew started firefighting, but was unable to extinguish the flames and requested assistance from the local authorities. At the scene of the accident were dispatched more than 150 firefighters and several machines, which are trying to get control over the flames. Fighting boats and tugs are pumping water and attack the flames from the Elbe.
The firefighters started salvage, which took almost 4 days, as temperature inside the vessel was extremely high, causing immediately danger for the strength of the hull and seaworthiness of the ship.
The local authorities decided to fill the hold with water up to 70% of its volume, though there's the risk, that hull may crack, due to thermal differential.