Casualty Update - MAERSK FRANKFURT - Fire & LOF Salvage
Incident Date: 19th July 2024
Vessel: MAERSK FRANKFURT
IMO No. 9969065
Type: Fully Cellular Containership
Incident: Fire LOF Salvage
The vessel was reportedly ‘stable’ this morning with four Indian coastguard vessels – Sachet, Sujeet, Samrat and Varaha – fighting the fire. We have been advised that salvors (Messrs SMIT Salvage BV) are engaged to offer assistance to the vessel. In this regard, cargo interests will be required to provide Salvage and/or General Average Guarantees before cargo will be delivered.
If you are aware of any involvement in this casualty and W E Cox Claims Group may be of assistance in any way, including provision of securities, arranging surveys, adjusting any potential losses &/or undertaking recovery action, please do not hesitate to contact us.
As appropriate, please contact:
United Kingdom – Paul Friett cargoclaims@w-e-cox.co.uk
France – Marie-Laure Mirrione MarieLaureMirrione@w-e-cox.eu
Europe – John Jackson Johnjackson@cwhji.com
Hong Kong – Twinnie Lai twinnie@ceemis.com.hk
Singapore – Paul Sansom psansom@w-e-cox.com.sg
USA – Joshua Gayer jgayer@w-e-cox.com
Australia – Niall Orr norr@w-e-cox.com.au
If this or future casualty notices should be forwarded to any of your colleagues, we would be pleased to receive their contact details and we will add them to our Client List.
