A fire broke out on a Russian nuclear-powered general cargo ship Sevmorput in the northern Russian port of Murmansk but was quickly extinguished by firefighters, Russian state officials said.
No one was injured in the incident, which occurred in one of the cabins of the vessel and affected an area of some 30 sq m, the regional branch of Russia’s emergency ministry said in a statement.
The fire was put out about an hour after the initial report. Atomflot, which operates the 34,600 dwt ship, and is part of the state nuclear company Rosatom, said that there was no threat to crucial support systems or to the reactor plant.
Built by Zaliv in Ukraine in 1988 and upgraded some decade ago, the Sevmorput made headlines earlier this year as one of the ships suspected of possible involvement in damage to the Balticonnector gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia.