A Greek handymax bulker has suffered a cargo hold fire at the port of Southampton over the weekend, according to local emergency services.
The fire aboard the 51,000-dwt Sirina (built 2001) involved a quantity of scrap metal, which was being loaded onto the vessel at Western Docks.
“At 13:51 firefighters were alerted to the fire involving 7,000t of scrap metal which had caused a large smoke plume above the ship in the dry dock,” said Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
