Salvage tug dispatched to stricken Maersk boxship after engine room fire in Atlantic
- Three crew members injured following engine room fire, with two persons being evacuated for treatment
- The 8,500 teu Maersk Sana last reported drifting 330 nautical miles southeast of Bermuda
A salvage tug has been sent from Mexico to tow the stricken 2004-built Maersk Sana
A SALVAGE tug is understood to have been dispatched from Mexico to tow the stricken containership Maersk Sana (IMO: 9289922), which was disabled by an engine room fire in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.
The 8,500 teu vessel was on passage from Port Newark to Singapore when Norfolk Rescue Co-ordination Centre received a report on April 30 that the vessel was disabled and adrift in a position 254 nautical miles east of Bermuda.
According to a Lloyd’s List Intelligence casualty report, the Maersk-owned and -operated ship had suffered an engine room fire which resulted in severe burns to three crew members.
Two crew members were later evacuated to the company’s Maersk Nomazwe (IMO: 9294381), which transferred them to Bermuda for medical treatment.
One crew member is understood to have since been discharged, while the other is said to be in a critical, but stable, condition.
With the vessel’s main engine disabled, a salvage tug has been sent from Mexico to tow the vessel to an undisclosed port. The tug is expected to arrive in the vicinity of Maersk Sana around Tuesday, May 6.
The vessel was last reported as being adrift 330 nautical miles southeast of Bermuda.
No official information has been released regarding the condition of the cargo or whether a declaration of general average will be made.
The 2004-built vessel, which is classed by Lloyd’s Register, operates on an Asia to US east coast, via the Panama Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, service. It is managed by Maersk’s Singapore shipmanagement division.
