As a result, there is an ongoing international debate and a proposal for introducing an international law to grant ‘place of refuge”. This debate received international attention in early 2000 when several incidents took place due to the “refusal or denial of place of refuge”. Finally, the Salvors removed the cargo oil at sea by ships to ship transfer and saved the vessel. CONTAINER CARGO FIRESBesides oil tanker fires, in recent times there have been fires on board container ships. The international insurance industry says one container ship fire occurs every two weeks somewhere in the world.

Source: The Nation June 04, 2021 01:09 UTC