{"id":10925,"date":"2025-06-05T20:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:02:41","slug":"zodiac-maritime-appoints-resolve-marine-to-respond-to-morning-midas-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=10925","title":{"rendered":"Zodiac Maritime appoints Resolve Marine to respond to Morning Midas fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Zodiac Maritime appoints Resolve Marine to respond to Morning Midas fire<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Zodiac Maritime reports that it has appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/resolvemarine.com\/\">Resolve Marine<\/a> to respond to the fire aboard its managed vehicle carrier, <em>Morning Midas<\/em> (IMO: 9289910). The vessel remains afloat and, based on the most recent images received from a Coast Guard overflight, remains on fire with smoke emanating from the vessel. There have been no reports of pollution to the water.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ow79NMHBxh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/uscg-alaska-responds-to-burning-car-carrier-morning-midas\/\">USCG Alaska responds to burning car carrier Morning Midas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cUSCG Alaska responds to burning car carrier Morning Midas\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/uscg-alaska-responds-to-burning-car-carrier-morning-midas\/embed\/#?secret=pny92kDXM9#?secret=ow79NMHBxh\" data-secret=\"ow79NMHBxh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A first tug carrying a team of salvage specialists and specialized equipment has already been mobilized and is expected to arrive at the scene on approximately June 9. There it will assess the vessel\u2019s condition and provide necessary support. An additional fire-fighting tug, capable of ocean towage, is also being arranged to provide further support.<\/p>\n<p>Following the crew\u2019s evacuation and until salvage tugs arrive on scene, Zodiac Maritime is continuing to monitor the <em>Morning Midas<\/em> via the ship\u2019d onboard satellite-connected systems. While this allows for tracking the vessel\u2019s location, the ability to monitor he vessel\u2019s location, the ability to= monitor other onboard conditions is limited.<\/p>\n<p>The incident during the vessel\u2019s passage to L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas, Mexico. According to media reports the voyage originated from Yantai, China, on May 26. It was carrying 3,048 total vehicles, with 70 being fully electric vehicles and 681 being hybrid electric vehicles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/uscg-alaska-responds-to-burning-car-carrier-morning-midas\/\">As we reported earlier,<\/a> smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud of the diligent efforts of our crew in responding to the fire onboard,\u201d says Zodiac Maritime. \u201cThey immediately activated the vessel\u2019s well-drilled emergency firefighting protocols and deployed the onboard fire suppression systems, all of which were fully operational. Due to the intensity of the fire and to prioritise crew safety, the decision was made to abandon the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll crew members were safely evacuated without injury via one of the vessel\u2019s two lifeboats and were subsequently rescued by the crew of the <em>Cosco Hellas<\/em>. We are grateful to the crew of the <em>Cosco Hellas <\/em>for their swift assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/zodiac-maritime-appoints-resolve-marine-to-respond-to-morning-midas-fire\/\">Zodiac Maritime appoints Resolve Marine to respond to Morning Midas fire<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/zodiac-maritime-appoints-resolve-marine-to-respond-to-morning-midas-fire\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=zodiac-maritime-appoints-resolve-marine-to-respond-to-morning-midas-fire\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zodiac Maritime appoints Resolve Marine to respond to Morning Midas fire Zodiac Maritime reports that it has appointed Resolve Marine to respond to the fire aboard its managed vehicle carrier, Morning Midas (IMO: 9289910). The vessel remains afloat and, based on the most recent images received from a Coast Guard overflight, remains on fire with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4675,192,4676,199,99,4666],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-carrirt-fire","category-marinelog","category-mormorning-midasm-cosco-hellas","category-news","category-salvage","category-zodiac-maritime","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}