On December 20, around 21.00 o’clock, a fire broke out in the accommodation area of the Panama-flagged dry cargo ship named as “BEATE“.

The incident took place for an unknown reason on Tuesday,5 nautical miles near the city of Sinop.

It has been reported that 16 of the 17 crew on board were taken off the board and brought to Sinop by the Coast Guard Teams. However, the master of the ship is still missing.

Upon the information and instruction from the Samsun & Sinop Port Authorities, at 23.30 Med Marine sent the tugboat MED XXV.

MED XXV left its home port Samsun to participate in the fire extinguishing activities. MED XXV arrived to the fire area at around 05.30 o’clock and started the extinguishing work.

The fire in the accommodation place was extinguished at around 07.00 o’clock and the cooling work of the ship is still continuing.

After the fire extinguishing work, Med Marine’s Operation Assistant Manager, Kemal Aksoy made the following statement: First of all, I hope that badly injured dry cargo ship crew can get well soon. It is my greatest wish that there will be no loss of life after the incident. Our prayers are for the crew to regain their health as soon as possible. As Med Marine group, we have been performing key operations such as rescue-aid, emergency response, and environmental pollution all over the world since 1987. We are a member of  The International Salvage Union, the largest rescue organization in the world.

With our experience and high technical capability, we serve effectively in this type of emergency response situation and resolve them before they got escalated.

This tragic incident is one of the emergency response situations. The struggle and effort of our tugboat captain and crew who went to help are admirable.