{"id":964,"date":"2019-01-08T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/?p=964"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:41:41","slug":"the-boc-blast-283-hapag-lloyd-crew-evacuated-from-fire-stricken-yantian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/the-boc-blast-283-hapag-lloyd-crew-evacuated-from-fire-stricken-yantian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"The BOC Blast 283 &#8211; Hapag-Lloyd Crew Evacuated from Fire-Stricken Yantian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Imagen1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1115\" height=\"302\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Hapag-Lloyd Crew Evacuated from Fire-Stricken Yantian Express<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHapag-Lloyd has evacuated the crew of the containership Yantian Express after the fire aboard the vessel increased in intensity.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nNamely, the shipping firm said that the ship\u2019s crew of 8 officers and 15 seafarers \u201cis unharmed and was safely transferred\u201d to the salvage tug Smit Nicobar on January 5 and 6.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cDue to bad weather conditions, the fire has not been successfully contained yet and has significantly increased in intensity at times,\u201d Hapag-Lloyd said, adding that firefighting support at the site is ongoing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe fire broke out on January 3 in one container on Yantian Express\u2019 deck and spread to additional containers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cAt this time, it is not possible to make a precise estimate of any damage to Yantian Express or its cargo,\u201d the company continued.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe 7,510 TEU Yantian Express was on its way from Colombo to Halifax via the Suez Canal when the fire started. The ship is currently around 800 nautical miles off the coast of Canada, Nova Scotia.<br \/>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-641 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-BOC-Blast-221-1-24-18-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"103\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1125px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1125\/103;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0Hapag-Lloyd Crew Evacuated from Fire-Stricken Yantian Express &nbsp; Hapag-Lloyd has evacuated the crew of the containership Yantian Express after the fire aboard the vessel increased in intensity. &nbsp; Namely, the shipping firm said that the ship\u2019s crew of 8 officers and 15 seafarers \u201cis unharmed and was safely transferred\u201d to the salvage tug Smit Nicobar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-boc-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}