On 6 March 2018 at 15:20 GMT, a major fire broke out in one of the forward cargo holds of Maersk Honam while the vessel was in the Arabian Sea about 900 nautical miles southeast of Salalah, Oman, en route from Singapore to Suez with a cargo of 7,860 containers and a crew of 27: thirteen Indian, nine Filipino, two Thai, one Romanian, one South African, and one British nationals.