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LASHFIRE featured in The Swedish Club magazine Triton
"Fires on vehicle decks are another major challenge. Detection of fire or smoke is difficult on the internal vehicle decks of RoPax or vehicle...
LASH FIRE tests severity of most common fire commodities
A series of fire tests were conducted under LASH FIRE’s WP10 from the end of...
LASH FIRE launches Maritime Advisory Groups (MAG’s)
The joint kick-off of the LASH FIRE Maritime Advisory Groups (MAG’s) consisting of the Maritime Operators Advisory Group (MOAG) and a (Maritime...
Stena Flavia Ship Visit
From the 19th to 20th of February 2020, three members of the LASH FIRE consortium visited the ro-pax vessel Stena Flavia, owned by the shipping...
Fire drill at MS Pearl Seaways DFDS
10 members of the Lash Fire consortium joined a fire drill at the ro-pax vessel MS Pearl Seaways on 17th January 2020 during its stop in Oslo,...
Visit to Ark Futura
The reason for the visit was to get an impression of what kind of fire detection and extinguishing systems are on board of older vessels. Ark Futura was built 1996 in Italy and has a mixed European crew.
EU funded project LASH FIRE aims to improve ro-ro ship fire safety
Project partners from 13 EU Member States investigate cost-efficient measures to mitigate the risk from ro-ro space fires. The European Commission invests M€ 12 to solve this international maritime fire safety challenge.