Fire reported on Yantian Express

  • Posted by David Sexton
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  • 8 January, 2019
CREW on board the vessel Yantian Express (IMO 9229831) were evacuated after the box ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean last week. Yantian Express is a 320metre, 100,003DWT box ship, linked registered in Germany and linked to the Hapag-Lloyd group. It was sailing from Sri Lanka to Halifax, Canada (via the Suez Canal) at the time of the fire report.
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Posted by David Sexton

David Sexton is DCN’s senior journalist and has an extensive career across online and print media. A former DCN editor, he returns to covering shipping and logistics after a four-year hiatus working at Monash University during which time he managed production of key reports into the Indonesian ports and rail sectors.

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