Germany: A fire that broke out on panel an oil tanker off Germany’s Baltic Sea coastline has been extinguished, officials said Saturday. The blaze did n’t spread to the ship’s load. On Friday night, the sea recovery service received a notification about the fire aboard the German-flagged Annika, and immediately removed all seven crew members. Black smoke from the ship, which was carrying around 640 metric lots of crude, could be seen from the beach.
The blaze spread across the stern of the fleet, and it appears to have started in the engine room or a storage area for ink. Authorities decided to have the ship towed to the port town of Rostock on Friday afternoon after experts determined that its condition was firm in order to continue fighting the flame.
Around 1 am, Germans ‘ Central Command for Maritime Emergencies reported that firefighters checked the 73-meter ( 240-foot ) long ship after it arrived in the harbor and discovered that the fire had gone out.
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