Port or tanker

Suiso Frontier

25 January 2022 · Evening local time

Port of Hastings, Victoria, Australia

What happened

A control-equipment malfunction aboard the liquefied-hydrogen tanker caused its gas-combustion unit to overheat and a hydrogen flame to propagate briefly onto the deck while the vessel was berthed. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau classified it as a serious marine fire occurrence. No fire spread, explosion, injury or damage resulted.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Port or tanker
Latitude
-38.3100°
Longitude
145.2200°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Gas control equipment malfunction on board the gas tanker Suiso FrontierAustralian Transport Safety Bureau · Incident reporting