Emerald Belle, a river cruise ship newbuilding being fitted out at a shipyard in the Netherlands, was damaged by a fire while on dockside over the weekend, Dutch media reports say.

The fire broke out around 0:45 am on 31 of January, on the ship, while it was docked at Shipyard Den Breejen, in the Rivierdijk in Hardinxveld.

The 135 m long vessel, which can accommodate 180 passengers, was still at the building dock and scheduled to be delivered in end of February for entering operations by Emerald Waterways. At the time of the fire, no passengers were on board and no one was reported injured during the incident, the reports say.

Emerald Waterways operates currently four river cruise ships in European rivers, mainly Rhine, Main, Danube and Mosel rivers. The fire damaged “Emerald Belle” was scheduled to be the 5 vessel to sail on European river.