Passive fire protection for the Marine Industry

There are still too many shipboard fires, says IMO. Fires on board passenger ships, and especially on roro ferries, occur far too frequently, according to a series of studies by IMO safety experts. They cite a total of 73 fires on roro passenger ships between 1994 and 2011. And, of course, others have happened since then. One of the most recent was a ferry, PeeJay V, which caught fire just off the New Zealand coast in January 2016 and burned down to the waterline. Fortunately, none of the 57 people on board died.