Posted on 07/26/2023 10:03:24 AM PDT by DFG
The race is on to prevent the sinking of a cargo ship off the Dutch coast which is carrying almost 3,000 vehicles, including 350 Mercedes-Benz, as it burns out of control with an electric car believed to be behind the deadly fire.
At least one crew member died and others were injured after fire ripped through the Fremantle Highway, a 18,500-ton car-carrying vessel. Rescue helicopters and boats evacuated 23 crew members from the Panamanian-registered ship.
Officials have said there are 'many' wounded. Some suffered broken bones, burns and breathing problems and were taken to hospitals in the northern Netherlands, emergency officials said.
Seven crew members jumped overboard and were rescued from the water, while the rest were airlifted by helicopter. Dutch broadcaster NOS reported that all the crew were Indian.
This afternoon, the ship was said to be burning out of control in the North Sea and rescue vessels were working to save it from sinking close to one of the world's most important migratory bird habitats.
'Currently there are a lot of vessels on scene to monitor the situation and to see how to get the fire under control,' coast guard spokeswoman Lea Versteeg told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.
'But it's all depending on weather and the damage to the vessel, so we're currently working out how we can make sure that... the least bad situation is going to happen.'
Asked if it is possible the ship could sink, Ms Versteeg said: 'It's a scenario we're taking into account and we're preparing for all scenarios.'
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This could be the end of the electric car import/export business as the folks who insure ships back off from the ‘the dream’.
(reality rears it’s ugly head)
That ought to set the stupid carbon credit calculator back a few hundred years.
Didn’t this also happen a few months ago?
When are the posters coming out?.
WANTED
DOA
Electric Cars
These incoming ship loads are like incoming MIRVs in that once ashore they disburse over the countryside causing damage.
Will we see the headline?
Green Car Fire Pollution Destroys Endangered Migratory Ocean Bird Habitat
Maybe the battery packs should be shipped separately from the cars and installed at the point of delivery.
Kind of like buying a Zippo lighter. They don’t have any fuel in them when you first take them out of the box.
Yep — Lloyd’s of London, et al, may see EV-toting ships w/ a jaundiced eye henceforth.
There was a fire on a ship docked in Newark a couple of weeks ago. Two firefighters died.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/two-newark-firefighters-killed-battling-ship-fire-report/
I seem to recall this exact thing has happened before.
Intense EV environmental damage. To Water and Air. Everything on the ship that burns needs to be counted.
Gee, guess I’ll ask the question. Is part of a German Auto Company business plan is to ship EV’s with IEC vehicles, wait for the fire and sell all the cars to the insurance company? 🧐 interesting way to increase sales!
Lloyds of London will probably make it cost prohibitive to ship electric cars.
They are not in business to pay out claims on vessels that burn at sea because of their CARGO.
“Green” windmills kill millions of raptors and whales. Now “green” EVs are killing “important migratory birds.”
Oh, the irony.
Yes,
In ‘22 I ship loaded with exotic cars sank after a fire in the Atlantic.
Over 1000 Porsche went with it.
Yes, different ocean.(I think)
Seaboard Schaudenfraude.
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