Fire is second top cause of loss of shipping vessels, with figures still climbing

Fires on vessels remain one of the biggest safety issues for the shipping industry as evidenced by a significant increase in recent incidents including the Fremantle Highway, a car-carrying vessel which caught fire this week off the Dutch coast with thousands of vehicles on board, en route from Germany to Egypt. In this Q&A, Captain Rahul Khanna, global head of marine risk consulting at Allianz Commercial, highlights some of the factors behind this trend