Crippled cruise ship heads for Malaysia Engineers on board a luxury cruise ship adrift off the Philippines restored power late on Saturday after a fire that injured five crew members, one seriously, in the third significant safety incident for the fast-growing cruise industry this year. After the restoration of power, the Azamara Quest was steaming slowly towards the Malaysian port of Sandakan, Azamara Club Cruises, the vessel's operator, said. The vessel was expected to reach the port within 24 to 48 hours, Azamara, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises, added. The fire, which broke out on Friday evening local time, follows the capsizing on January 13 off the coast of Italy of the Costa Concordia, which killed at least 30 people and left another two missing. Another vessel operated by Costa Cruises, the Costa Allegra, suffered a crippling fire on February 27 near the Seychelles and had to be towed to port. Costa is a subsidiary of Miami-based Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise line by revenues. Royal Caribbean is number two in the market. The Quest was on a cruise that had left Hong Kong on Monday for a 17-night voyage due to visit the Philippines and parts of the Indonesian archipelago before ending in Singapore. It is one of two vessels operating under Royal Caribbean's Azamara Club Cruises brand, which specialises in high-end cruises offering passengers longer stays in port and more exotic itineraries. Royal Caribbean has been particularly successful in expanding into the Asian market, which all cruise lines see as potentially vast. The five injured members of the 419-strong crew all suffered smoke inhalation while fighting the engine room fire, which Azamara said had been brief and quickly extinguished. The condition of the worst-affected crew member had improved but was still serious, the company said. He would need hospital treatment on land. None of the 617 passengers on board was injured but they were called to their lifeboat muster stations, in case it became necessary to abandon ship. The Cruise Lines International Association, the industry's umbrella body, insists despite the recent rash of incidents that cruising enjoys a good safety record. There was a total of only 28 passenger or crew fatalities on cruise ships resulting from a maritime incident in the decade before the Costa Concordia's grounding, it says. Richard Fain, Royal Caribbean's chief executive, two weeks ago gave the Financial Times the first major interview by a senior cruise line executive since the Costa Concordia accident. He insisted that the new generation of big ships, whose safety has come under attack following the Concordia accident, were safe and could be evacuated even faster than smaller vessels.