By Karin Matussek (Bloomberg) — Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive…
https://gcaptain.com/volkswagen-faces-lawsuits-over-felicity-ace-fire/
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has revealed its plans to enhance fire detection capabilities in its newbuild LNG-fueled car carriers by installing cameras and an advanced AI system. The AI system,…
https://gcaptain.com/mol-installing-ai-based-fire-detection-systems-on-newbuild-car-carriers/
The fire on the car carrier Fremantle Highway in the North Sea is just the latest in a long and ever-growing list of fires involving vehicles on roll-on/roll-off car carriers….
https://gcaptain.com/a-brief-look-back-at-recent-car-carrier-fires/
Two firefighters died while fighting a blaze aboard a Grimaldi roll-on/roll-off vessel berthed at Port Newark in New Jersey Wednesday night.
Emergency personnel from the Port of New York and New Jersey as well as the New York and Newark fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a blaze aboard the Grande Costa d’Avorio that reportedly broke out at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Grimaldi Group, the Italian company that owns the vessel, said in a statement that the fire erupted on the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2-firefighters-killed-in-car-carrier-blaze-at-port-newark
A large-scale oil spill is unlikley from the sunken Felicity Ace car carrier, the ship’s manager said in an update. Felicity Ace sank on March 1 around 220 nautical miles…
All hopes of recovering some of the nearly 4,000 luxury cars Volkswagen Group had onboard the 6,400 ceu Felicity Ace have been dashed after the Panama-flagged vessel sank yesterday off the coast of Portugal’s Azore Islands. Volkswagen had VW, Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini-branded models...
https://splash247.com/recovery-claims-to-arise-from-felicity-ace-sinking/
Felicity Ace, the 6,400 CEU car carrier which caught fire on 16 February while crossing the Atlantic Ocean lost stability and sank yesterday, 1 March, after attempts to be towed to safety. The post…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/felicity-ace-sinks-after-being-on-fire-for-days/
MOL Ship Management (Singapore) reported today that the car carrier Felicity Ace sank at around 9 a.m. local time, some 200 nautical miles off the Azores. The vessel had been in trouble since February 16, when a fire broke out that forced the crew to abandon the vessel. They were picked up by the nearby tanker Resilient Warrior and subsequently airlifted to safety by the Portuguese Air Force.
The vessel had been en route to the Port of Davisville, R.I., from Emden, Germany with a shipment of...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/felicity-ace-sinks/
The Felicity Ace car carrier has sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship’s manager, MOL Ship Management (Singapore), confirmed that the vessel sank around 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday…
By Monica Raymunt (Bloomberg) The cargo ship that caught fire in the Atlantic while transporting roughly 4,000 Volkswagen AG vehicles to the U.S. has sunk despite efforts to tow her to…
https://gcaptain.com/bentleys-lambos-sink-ship-felicity-ace/