FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The Nautical Institute draws lessons learned from an incident where a fire broke out in a general cargo vessel’s aft hold while loading scrap metal. The incident A general cargo carrier was loading scrap metal into its aft cargo hold when the Master observed smoke rising from the hold. He immediately activated the general alarm and called for the shore grab operator to discharge cargo in a bid to remove or expose the source of the fire. Meanwhile, the crew mustered and prepared firefighting equipment. RelatedNews Iranian vessel reportedly on fire days after US navy operation UK MPC questions IMO decision to reduce sea-service time requirement var jnews_module_21366432_0_6a04e21047f72 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21366432","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"74,606,214","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_imag