ATSB Calls Out Inadequate Fire Safety Standards Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. (Photo: ATSB) Australia's national transport safety investigator is calling out inadequate international vessel fire safety standards and regulations in the wake of a 2018 bulk carrier fire that took five days to contain and extinguish. The 202 meter, Australian flagged self-unloading bulk carrier Iron Chieftain was discharging its cargo of dolomite at Port Kembla, New South Wales in the early hours of June 18, 2018 when friction, probably from a failed bearing, generated enough heat to ignite a rubber conveyor belt in the C-Loop internal cargo handling space. (Self-unloading bulk carriers are equipped with a series of conveyor belt systems and spaces that enable cargo to be unloaded without requiring shore-based equipment.)