An aerial photograph taken on August 22, 2022 shows a Stena Line ferry sailing past the the Ever Alot container ship docked by stopped container loading cranes at the empty UK's largest freight port, in Felixstowe, during a dock workers eight-day strike over pay. - Workers at Britain's biggest container port, Felixstowe, began on August 21, 2022 an eight-day strike over pay, in the latest industrial action as decades-high inflation intensifies the country's cost-of-living crisis. Nearly 2,000 unionised employees at the port in eastern England, including crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores, started their walkout Sunday morning in the first strike at Felixstowe since 1989. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

A fire broke out on a car ferry with around 300 people on board off the south-eastern Swedish coast on Monday. According to a spokesman for the Swedish Maritime Administration, three helicopters and seven ships were dispatched to the scene and evacuation of the ferry began.

“We have been informed of a limited fire, the firefighting is ongoing,” a spokesman for the ferry company Stena Line told Swedish radio.

A spokeswoman for the Swedish sea rescue center told the TT news agency that there were no reports of injuries. “We have received information from the ship that the fire should be under control. But we have alerted all available units to be on site should an evacuation be necessary.” All available pilot boats and helicopters have been dispatched to the ferry.

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR