Felicity Ace

Car carrier — and Bentleys, Porsches and Lamborghinis — sinks

The car carrier Felicity Ace has sunk — and with it about half a billion dollars worth of luxury vehicles.

“Initial reports from the local salvage team state that the vessel had sunk at around 9 a.m. local time (5 a.m. EST Tuesday) having suffered a list to starboard,” MOL Ship Management Singapore said in a statement. 

According to the incident information center, the Felicity Ace was about 220 nautical miles off the Portuguese Azores in the Atlantic Ocean when it sank. The vessel, owned and...

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Felicity Ace car carrier fire set to push up marine insurance costs

Volkswagen AG has come far from the days of the beloved air-cooled bug. These days its portfolio includes brands such as Bentley and Lamborghini. That means that the fire still burning aboard the MOL car carrier Felicity Ace could soon join the list of very expensive maritime casualties, pushing up the costs of marine insurance.

On February 16, the car carrier was en route for the Port of Davisville, R.I., from Emden, Germany with a shipment of Volkswagen AG luxury vessels when a fire broke out...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/shipping/felicity-ace-car-carrier-fire-set-to-push-up-marine-insurance-costs/

Carrier transporting luxury cars to US still smoldering in Atlantic

Two large tugs with firefighting equipment were expected to reach a car carrier smoldering off the coast of Portugal on Monday. The Felicity Ace was bound for the United States reportedly bearing Audis, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Porsches when a fire broke out Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean about 90 miles southwest of the Azores. 

The Felicity Ace “is still assumed to remain on fire” and was drifting farther south of the islands, MOL Ship Management Singapore said in a statement Monday. 

“Current...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carrier-transporting-luxury-cars-to-us-still-smoldering-in-atlantic

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