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A hearth broke out on the automotive freighter ‘Fremantle Freeway’ off the Dutch coast, killing one individual and injuring a number of others. The freighter had 2,857 automobiles on board, 25 of them electrical.
Whereas varied media stories have claimed that the hearth is claimed to have began from an electrical automotive, there is no such thing as a point out of this on the coast guard’s web site. A spokesperson for the coast guard solely instructed Reuters that the hearth “began close to an electrical automotive”.
“The fireplace is most positively nonetheless not managed. It’s a really exhausting fireplace to extinguish, probably due to the cargo the ship was transporting,” mentioned Edwin Versteeg, the spokesperson for the Dutch Division of Waterways and Public Works. The Worldwide Maritime Organisation, which units out rules for security at sea, now additionally plans to judge new measures for ships transporting electrical automobiles subsequent yr in mild of the rising variety of fires on cargo ships, in keeping with an organizational spokesperson.
reuters.com