


The blaze was extinguished and nobody was hurt but $4m worth of damage was inflicted. Workers evacuated the bulker and summoned the fire services.

The report says that on Decemaround 5.40pm local time, a fire broke out in the electrical control room for the aft winches of the freighter Alpena while it was in drydock at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding having work done on it. A fire that badly damaged a Great Lakes cargo steamship in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin late last year was probably caused by faulty wiring on the vessel a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report has found.
