Hong Kong firefighters have put out a long-lasting blaze at one of the city’s container ports. A Liberian-flagged ship was carrying 18 containers storing a total of 11,000 bags of flammable fine charcoal powder, weighing 170 tonnes.
Three containers on the vessel had previously burst into flames outside Hong Kong waters on February 15 when sailing from Vietnam, but the fire was doused by crew members. Soon after the containers were offloaded in Tuen Mun’s River Trade Terminal for inspection on February 20, five of them caught fire. Firefighters extinguished those fires only to find other containers also on fire.
(Photo: Hong Kong Fire Services Department)
