ZIM container ship fire in containers

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Report emerged on fire in containers on board of container ship ZIM CHARLESTON, off Colombo. Fire erupted on Aug 7 or 8, when the ship was approaching Colombo or was already anchored, on arrival from Singapore. On Aug 8 ZIM CHARLESTON left Colombo waters and sailed in western direction, turned back and returned during Aug 8-9. was berthed on Aug 11. As of Aug 16, remained berthed. Some 300 containers are probably, damaged.
Container ship ZIM CHARLESTON, IMO 9461506, dwt 102518, capacity 8586 TEU, built 2011, flag HK.

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My name is Mikhail Voytenko, I’m Russian, professional merchant marine navigator, by education and former experience. I own and run Maritime Bulletin website for more than 10 years. I've been involved in solving a number of piracy hijack cases, including the hijack of ro-ro FAINA, loaded with tanks. It was me who made public, and unravel, freighter ARCTIC SEA mystery. I've been also closely involved in a number of maritime disaster, one of them being MSC FLAMINIA major fire.