{"id":8787,"date":"2026-02-11T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:18:10","slug":"dfds-reveals-freight-contingency-plan-following-cargo-ship-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8787\/","title":{"rendered":"DFDS reveals freight contingency plan following cargo ship fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The MV Arrow will replace the fire-damaged Caesarea Trader<\/p>\n

\n DFDS is operating an extra freight-only sailing of the Stena Vinga today (10 February) following a fire onboard the Caesarea Trader.<\/p>\n

The cargo ship was enroute from Jersey to Portsmouth when a blaze broke out in the engine\u00a0room on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

A coastguard helicopter and RNLI lifeboat were sent to the scene, just off the coast of the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0crew and one passenger onboard\u00a0are all\u00a0safe.<\/p>\n

The Ro-Ro ship – formerly owned by Condor Ferries and known as the Commodore Goodwill – is to be towed to port for the damage to assessed.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Tuesday morning, DFDS confirmed its contingency plans for maintain essential freight supplies into Jersey:<\/p>\n

“…Stena Vinga will operate an additional freight-only sailing today, departing Portsmouth at 10:30 this morning. Impacted freight customers will be contacted directly.<\/p>\n

“Back-up vessel MV Arrow is sailing from Dunkerque today and is expected to arrive in Portsmouth at 06:00 tomorrow (Wednesday).<\/p>\n

“We are working with freight customers to finalise a revised operating schedule.”<\/p>\n

The Chief Minister said the government was being kept updated and praised the agencies that responded swiftly to assist the stricken vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MV Arrow will replace the fire-damaged Caesarea Trader DFDS is operating an extra freight-only sailing of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6052],"tags":[6136,6128,6131,1294,6132,6057,6134,6126,6135,6130,6133,6125,6127,6129],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dfds","tag-absolute","tag-alderney","tag-bailiwick","tag-capital","tag-channel-islands","tag-dfds","tag-greatest-hits","tag-guernsey","tag-heart","tag-herm","tag-hits","tag-island-fm","tag-radio","tag-sark"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}