The ship Fremantle Highway, which was carrying 3,783 cars, caught fire on 25 July 2023 but managed to extinguish without sinking and is now able to reach a port in the Netherlands. It is said that there is.
Of the 3,783 cars on board, "low four-digit numbers" were reportedly manufactured by BMW and its subsidiaries.
This could include BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce.
And as previously reported, about 350 Mercedes.
According to the German newspaper Bild, about 800 of the cars on board were still intact, so if that's the case, that's really good.
Of course, there are people who have died, and there are many cars that have burned, but there have never been 800 cars that survived the fire and were extinguished without sinking. I think it depends.
It seems that there were 498 electric cars on board this ship, and although the cause of the fire is still unknown, the audio recordings say that the battery of the electric car caught fire and the electric car exploded. (However, the content of the statement may also be speculation by the person who made the statement, so the truth is still unknown.)
Since the ship was left unsinked, we may be able to understand the cause of the fire, so I hope that this will lead to future countermeasures.
The fire broke out on the upper deck, and rescue experts said four of the ship's decks were relatively undamaged, while eight decks were partly destroyed by the fire.
The ship's arrival at a Dutch port also ensures that the Wadden Sea and the Wadden Islands are free from pollution.
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I'm Rika, the author of this article. Ever since Porsche 911 became my favorite car, I've become totally addicted to Porsche, and I can't stop loving Porsche, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are 911 Carrera (991.2), 911 Carrera Cabriolet (992.1), and 911 Carrera T (992.1).
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