Friday, August 28, 2015

Pressed cardboard stored in a 40-foot container on the "Alula" container ship caught fire at the Eurogate Terminal in the Waltershof Port in Hamburg



Friday, 28 August 2015
Fire in container cargo 


Written by AdminSailor




Pressed cardboard stored in a 40-foot container on the "Alula" container ship caught fire on Aug 28, 2015, at 3.30 a.m. at the Eurogate Terminal in the Waltershof Port in Hamburg. 


The alerted firefighters removed the box from the ship. At 7 a.m. the smoldering fire has been extinguished. 

The cause of the fire has not yet been clarified. 

The ship had arrived in port on August 27, coming from Rotterdam.