Posted on 08/07/2023 2:14:57 PM PDT by george76
EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands — Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a protected habitat for birds.
The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution.
The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones, on board caught fire on July 25 while traveling from the German port city of Bremerhaven to Singapore.
Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging.
The fire on the Fremantle Highway burned out of control for a week as it floated near busy North Sea shipping lanes and the shallow Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed migratory bird habitat. Dutch authorities did not attempt to spray water onto the ship for fear of making it unstable.
The blaze put nerves on edge in the Netherlands and Germany, which shares the Wadden Sea with its neighbor.
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One crew member died and others were injured when the fire erupted.
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Take it out to a deep spot and give it a burial at sea
I told you there was no alternative last month
Battery cars are wonderful 🔥
Talk about EV environmental damage. All those toxic chemicals spewed into the air and the ocean. Gotta count the ICE vehicles as EV environmental damage too. But that was just burning plastic. They most likely have no more than a gallon of gas in them when shipped.
Like they say on the internet, they have so many cars they’re practically giving them away.
That’ll buff right out
That ship is worth a lot of money.
It floats.
A lotta $$$ in salvage...
I wonder how many of the vehicles are still going to be sold?
Tow it to New York and use it for a “migrant” shelter, a la the old-time Royal Navy prison hulks. You could probably stow several thousand illegal aliens aboard a ship that size.
Was “burning for you” by Blue Öyster Cult playing when it was towed in??
I wonder what it looks like inside.
I’m guessing these were German EVs that caught fire. No need to send Teslas from Europe to the US. And the Chinese/Korean/Japanese ones would take a shorter route.
We’ve all seen the videos of burning Teslas. But there are a lot of Teslas compared to other EVs at least for now. We’ve seen Fords and Chevy’s buring at the factory charging station. So it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing BMWs and Mercedes Benz and Porsches and VWs alight.
So maybe the song was Janis Joplin “Oh Lord Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...”
Save the lithium, save the lithium !!!
I wonder when insurance companies are going to start refusing to insure the transport of EV’s. Imagine a train loaded with these things bursting into flames.
I am wondering if Shipping Companies will want to carry EV’s,
and what will their Insurance Companies charge for the trip.
“You could probably stow several thousand illegal aliens aboard a ship that size.”
And set it adrift while they are sleeping, and tow it to France.
3,784 vehicles plus the cost of the ship and one death is a hefty prive tag to cover.
At $40,000 each that over $150 million just for cars.
***a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging,***
Standard procedure here is to send the wrecked cars to Missouri scrap yards There instead of destroying them for scrap they will weld parts of two or three wrecked cars together, slap a coat of paint on it, then ship them down into Arkansas and sell them through the auto auctions as “abandoned vehicles”.
There, you can get, for $45 a nice clean Arkansas title showing the auto had never been wrecked and “Only driven to church by the salesman’s grandmother!”
Guaranteed to run till you sign the papers and get it off the lot.
That was an Arkansas scam for decades.
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