A ferry stranded in the Baltic Sea for about six hours with an estimated 300 people on board has safely reached its destination, port authorities say. A ferry stranded in the Baltic Sea for about six hours with an estimated 300 people on board has safely reached its destination, port authorities say. Ferry stranded in Baltic Sea with 300 passengers reaches port after breakdownThe ferry, operated by Copenhagen-based DFDS Seaways, was in international waters off Kaliningrad, a Russian coastal enclave between Poland and Lithuania, when the engine stopped working. Smoke poured out of the engine room and triggered the fire extinguisher inside the room, the ferry operator said. “We are talking about a malfunction in the engine room that caused a lot of smoke,” DFDS spokesman Gert Jakobsen said.

Source: Irish Independent October 02, 2018 20:48 UTC