PUBLISHER: Freight News (www.freightnews.co.za)
Questions are being raised about why Israeli line ZIM appears to be keeping schtum about an on-board fire on a container vessel it leases from Seaspan Corporation.
According to reports out this morning, the 8 586-TEU ZIM Charleston was sailing west off Sri Lanka’s coast when a fire erupted in one of the ship’s cargo holds on August 8.