“The ship, carrying 4,530 vehicles from Korea, used all its CO2 in the fire extinguishing system, but the fire is still raging on the cargo decks with a lot of smoke,” according to the specialized news portal Maritime Bulletin.
The Russian crew is still on board, no one was hurt.
The press service of Rosmorrechflot previously reported that a large freezing fishing trawler Sunfish caught fire in the Sea of Okhotsk.
In June, it became known that the Russian ship "Angara" caught fire 6 km north of the Japanese city of Toyama on the island of Honshu in the Sea of Japan.