![Malaysia: MISC’s Teams Continue with Monitoring of ‘Bunga Alpinia’]()
MISC informs that the monitoring of ‘hot spot’ areas onboard the vessel has been reduced and boundary cooling has stopped, enabling the authorities and industry experts engaged by the company to board the vessel to undertake inspection works. As of this morning, no further slick is seen emitting from Bunga Alpinia. However, Misc will continue [...]
MISC confirms that a fifth body has been found on the vessel early this morning. The identity of the body has yet to be confirmed. In the meantime, efforts by the authorities and industry experts engaged by MISC are still ongoing to contain the minor slick emitting from Bunga Alpinia and to ensure the continuous [...]
The fire onboard Bunga Alpinia has been contained and currently further cooling efforts are under way. The Labuan Fire & Rescue Department will conduct an assessment of the vessel before authorising a search effort to be conducted onboard for the missing four crew members. MISC has confirmed that the deceased is Malaysian, Shahril Azmi Bin [...]
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The Bunga Alpinia incident this morning had unfortunately resulted in a fatality whilst four other MISC crew members are still missing. The identity of the deceased is yet to be confirmed. Currently, efforts are being made to put out the fire onboard the vessel. The vessel was loading methanol at the PETRONAS Chemicals Methanol Sdn [...]
MISC Berhad (MISC) has confirmed that a fire broke out onboard its 38,000 DWT IMO II chemical/palm oil tanker, Bunga Alpinia at approximately 2.30am (local time) this morning. The vessel was alongside the PETRONAS Chemicals Methanol Sdn Bhd terminal in Labuan when the incident took place. The ship has 29 crew members, of which 23 [...]
