The bulk carrier Lucy Oldendorff reported fire into the cargo hold at berth place in Tauranga, New Zaeland. The vessel was moored into the port after voyage between Pasir Gudang, Malaysia and Tauranga, when the duty officers saw smoke coming from Cargo Hold No 1. The crew activated the CO2 firefighting system, which extinguished the fire, pushing the air from the hold. There is no damages and injured people during the accident and the discharging of the palm kernel cargo on board will continue according to the plan. There is no information about the reason for the accident, as the local and port authorities started investigations. The ship will be inspected after the finishing of the discharge operations and will continue the voyage. The vessel is quite new, built according to the latest standards of IMO with modern firefighting equipment, which was the main reason for fast and accurate extinguishing of the fire.
The bulk carrier Lucy Oldendorff (IMO: 9587166) was built in 2011 in the shipyard of Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding in Linhai, China. The vessel has length of 180.00 m, beam of 28.00 m and maximum draft of 8.70 m. The gross tonnage of the bulk carrier Lucy Oldendorff is 20,867 GRT and the summer deadweight is 32,491 DWT.