Union Disgust as Ferry Engine Fire Report Published by Marine Accident Investigators
Incident Resulted in Closure of Scottish - Belgian RoRo Freight Service
UK – BELGIUM – LITHUANIA – This week saw the publishing of the report by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) into the fire aboard the RoRo Cargo ferry
Finlandia Seaways. The report does not make good reading for the owners and operators of the ship DFDS Seaways AB-Lithuania.
The ship, which has now been redeployed to the Baltic Sea, was flagged as Lithuanian and serviced and maintained by the Diesel Service Group in Klaipeda. She sailed from Zeebrugge on 16 April 2018 headed for Rosyth in Scotland. That evening, while 11 miles off the coast of Lowestoft the main engine suffered an explosion.