taking container firefighting to new heights

Finally, there’s a faster, safer and more efficient way to directly fight costly container fires at heights on container vessels.

Costly catastrophes

Container fires put your crew, cargo and business at serious risk – and they are notoriously difficult to fight, particularly when high up in the vessel’s container stack.  

Traditionally, these fires have been fought by dowsing the burning container and its surroundings with water – a drawn-out and highly inefficient approach that can cause
as much or more damage to cargo than the fire itself.  But now there’s a far better
​​​​​​​solution!

Automatic, direct firefighting

The HydroPen^TM system is an innovative, water-based drilling machine that enables crew to effectively and efficiently fight container fires high up in the stack.

It consists of two key components: a telescopic lift used to raise a drilling/spraying unit to the right height in the stack, and the drilling/spraying unit itself.

Powered solely by water pressure from the fire main, the HydroPen™ can drill through a standard steel container door, then automatically switch mode to spray water profusely inside the container. All the crew needs to do is hoist the system’s drilling/spraying unit to the doors of the burning container with the telescopic lift, then stand back while HydroPen^TM does the rest!