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Fire destroyed vast majority of cargo of Espirito Santo Express, HMM Platinum anchored off Durban
Two weeks after the fire started aboard the 'Espirito Santos Express', carriers have advised customers that they expected the vast majority of the cargo to be either severely damaged by the fire or a total loss. Salvage teams were meanwhole making progress with the fire as well as with another containership, the 'HMM Platinum', which reported a fire around the same time. The containership was operating under charter to Hapag-Lloyd on a shared route with Ocean Network Express. The full details on the fire were not released by claims consultant WK Webster. The 28 crew members had evacuated the ship on Oct 15, approximately 975 nautical miles northwest of Tristan da Cunha. The crew was rescued by the passing bulk carrier 'Aeolian Arrow', whose the chief officer was thrown overboard from the rescue boat, and the rescue boat was subsequently swamped and lost. Efforts to recover the officer were unsuccessful. Both Hapag and ONE reported that the owners, Seaspan, have advised them the fire remaied under control. A team from SMIT had reached the drifting vessel. On Oct 28, Webster had advised it understood the vessel was still ablaze. It would take considerable time to bring the vessel into a port of refuge and assess the damage in more detail. There was no word on whether the fire started in the containers. The 'HMM Platinum' has anchored off Durbanon Oct 28 after a fire on board, which had started around the end of September, while the ship was navigating off the southern coast of Lavanono, Madagascar. The vessel was also bound for Brasil, when the fire began. Reports indicated that there were approximately 2,300 TEU aboard. HMM had reported the fire had been controlled, working with a salvage team from SMIT. However, the vessel was delayed by weather and had moved away from South Africa while tugs remained with it as a precaution. The crew was reported to be safe, and the ship appeared to be waiting for space in Durban so that it could complete its survey to determine the full extent of the damage.
Firefighting in final stage
Tve firefighting operations aboard the 'HMM Platinum' have reached the final cooling and monitoring stage. All 24 crew members were reported safe. The vessel, carrying approximately 2,300 TEUs, remained offshore near South Africa after adverse weather conditions prevented it from proceeding to a port. Tugs were standing by as a precaution while authorities and salvage personnel assess the situation.
Container ship NUC after fire
The 'HMM Platinum', with 24 crew members on board, was located off Madagascar on Oct 12, 2026, after a fire had interrupted its voyage from Kattupalli to Santos on the morning of Oct 7. All crew members were safe, and no injuries have been reported. On Oct 13 the fire fighting winded down, after it had entered the final dampening-down stage. The vessel sought a South African port of refuge, with its onward voyage disrupted. UK-based marine claims services firm W.E. Cox Claims Group has reported that the salvage company SMIT was engaged under Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF). The firm expected potentially significant damage and considered a general average declaration likely, bringing possible financial and security requirements for cargo interests alongside the disruption to deliveries. Marine and transit claims consultancy WK Webster reported that the fire occurred within a container, while the vessel was navigating off Lavanono, on Madagascar’s southern coast. On Oct 8 it was reported that approximately 2,300 containers were aboard. Although the firm warned that damage could be significant, no confirmed tally of affected containers or quantified assessment of the vessel and cargo losses has been published in the notices. The ship’s propulsion and navigation systems were operating normally. Durban was initially identified as the intended port of refuge. W.E. Cox’s 7 October notice gave an expected ETA as of Oct 8, but its next update said the vessel was looking for an alternative port, potentially Port Elizabeth, now known as Gqeberha. On Oct 10, the ship was southwest of Madagascar at a speed of 2.7 knots and the navigational status “not under command”, while Durban remained entered as the destination. The vessel was therefore still offshore in that reported position, rather than alongside at a refuge port. Investigations into the cause and damage, as well as decisions on the vessel’s destination, were to proceed once the fire was fully extinguished. The ship had left Kattupalli on Sep 27 enroute to Santos. Before that, it had called at Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Shenzhen and Singapore.
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