Fremantle Highway was towed to Eemshaven after salvors decided hearth had been extinguished. [Photo: Netherlands Coast Guard]
The Fremantle Highway is now moored alongside within the Dutch port of Eemshaven. The resolution to tow the burned out automobile service to the port was made after it was decided that the fireplace aboard the vessel that broke out July 25 was fully extinguished. One particular person died within the incident and two have been injured.
The tow acquired underway round 5.00 a.m. this morning, native time, with the ship being towed by two tugs and accompanied by the Netherlands Coast Guard vessel Guardian and the Rikswaterstaat oil response vessel Arca.
Rijkswaterstaat, which is a part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, says that, with the vessel docked the proprietor of the vessel, Shoei Kisen “remains responsible for the further handling of the cargo and everything that goes with it.”
Shoei Kisen, which final made the type of headlines no ship operator needs to have because the proprietor of the Ever Given, stated it’s “planning to investigate the cause of the accident in cooperation with relevant parties.”
Many questions stay to be answered concerning the incident, not least the variety of EVs (electrical automobiles) aboard. Some experiences have put that quantity at practically 500 and a sound clip has surfaced through which a responder is heard saying that the fireplace broke out in an EV.
Bloomberg as we speak quoted Boskalis CEO Peter A. M. Berdowski as saying that “the fire started in some of the top decks. We assume the eighth deck, that’s in a very poor state. Part of it is completely collapsed and it’s heavily, heavily destructed,” and, “We don’t know what the source was of the fire.Having said that, I think all experts with any knowledge on this topic agree that the transportation of electric vehicles introduces additional risks.”
Among these specialists, in fact, is insurer Allianz, which printed an expert risk briefing on the subject final month.
The state of the burned out automobile service when it arrived in Eemshaven this morning might be seen within the video. Meantime, its captain stays in hospital within the Netherlands. The different particular person injured within the hearth, the pilot, has been launched from hospital.
