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Update: First Salvage Tug Arrives at Burning Car Carrier Morning Midas Adrift...
The car carrier Morning Midas, adrift off the coast of Alaska, is still burning, with the first salvage tug arriving at the scene on Monday, as reported by Splash. The tug Gretchen Dunlap arrived...
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Car Carrier Morning Midas Abandoned Mid-Pacific as EVs and Hybrids Burn Out...
The car carrier Morning Midas was on a voyage from China to Mexico when it caught fire on Tuesday in the mid-Pacific, some 300 miles southwest of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The ship was carrying 3,048...
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Update: Fire on Car Carrier Fremantle Highway Continues to Burn, Concerns...
News reports are that salvors fighting the fire on the car carrier Fremantle Highway have been temporarily stopped in their attempt to cool the exterior of the stricken ship with water. There are...
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Car Carrier Fremantle Highway Catches Fire in North Sea Off Dutch Coast, One...
Near midnight on Tuesday, the car carrier Fremantle Highway, loaded with nearly 3,000 cars, caught fire and has been burning out of control off the Dutch island of Ameland. The Dutch coast guard said...
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Update: After Burning For Two Weeks, Car Carrier Felicity Ace Sinks Off Azores
Photo: Portuguese navy The car carrier Felicity Ace, carrying upwards of 4,000 vehicles, including more than 1,000 Porsches and 200 Bentleys, caught fire in the Atlantic off the Azores on February 16....
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Update: Fire on Car Carrier Felicity Ace, Adrift Off Azores, Burning Out
Reuters is reporting that the fire, which swept through the car carrier Felicity Ace carrying thousands of luxury cars, leaving it adrift off Portugal’s Azores islands has lost its intensity, probably...
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Car Carrier Felicity Ace on Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic
The car carrier Felicity Ace caught fire yesterday in the Atlantic Ocean, 90 miles southwest of the Azores. The Portuguese Navy and four merchant ships in the area responded to the car carrier’s...
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Golden Ray Salvage Finally Completed, Massive, But Not Necessarily The...
Golden Ray & SS Normandie The last section of the car carrier Golden Ray has been removed from St. Simons Sound near Brunswick, Georgia, and is on its way to a scrapyard. The 656-foot car carrier...
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Golden Ray & the Billion Dollar Blunder — Tallying the Cost
We recently posted about the NTSB determination that the car carrier Golden Ray capsized due to an error in a stability calculation prior to sailing. Now as the salvage operation is wrapping up and the...
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Update: Golden Ray Salvors Consider Using Explosives to Cut Steel
The salvors attempting to cut up the shipwreck of the car-carrier Golden Ray have run into new problems. For the last seven months, the salvors have attempted to cut the ship up using a heavy-lift...
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Update: Golden Ray Salvage Delayed by Fire
The salvage job to remove the car carrier Golden Ray that rolled on its side as it departed the Port of Brunswick, GA, in September 2019 while carrying about 4,200 vehicles, was originally planned to...
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Update: Golden Ray Salvage Drags On, 3rd Block Removed
Last November, salvors began cutting up the Golden Ray and predicted that the job would be completed by the New Year. Now, five months later, the job is less than half-finished and the new target for...
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Volkswagen to Operate Two Car Carriers on Biofuel
Volkswagen Group Logistics has switched the first of two chartered car carriers from burning heavy fuel to biofuel. The fuel is supplied by Netherlands-based GoodFuels and is produced primarily from...
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Golden Ray Salvage Update: Stern Cut Completed, Block Hauled Away
The salvage of the stranded car carrier Golden Ray is accelerating. Salvors on the heavy-lift barge VB-10,000 are using a heavy chain to cut the ship into sections to be carried away by barge. The...
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Update: Golden Ray Salvage, Cutting Begins on Stern Section
Salvors on the heavy-lift barge VB-10,000 have begun making the second cut through the hull of the stranded car carrier Golden Ray which rolled over in shallow water shortly after departing the Port of...
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Oceanbird, Proposed Sailing Car Carrier, Cuts Emissions by 90%
A Swedish consortium that includes Wallenius Marine has designed Oceanbird, a five-masted sailing car carrier, that could have a huge impact on the development of modern commercial sail. The design is...
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Versabar’s VB-10,000, Golden Arches, Readies to Lift Golden Ray
In September 2019, the car carrier Golden Ray lost stability and partially capsized as it departed the Port of Brunswick, GA, carrying about 4,200 vehicles. In October 2019, the Golden Ray was declared...
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Car Carrier ‘Sincerity Ace’ on Fire — 16 Rescued, 1 Missing, 4 Feared Dead
Around 1,800 nautical miles northwest of Oahu, the car carrier Sincerity Ace is adrift and on fire. Sixteen of her Philippine crew have been rescued, while four are feared dead and one remains missing....
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Car Carrier Hoegh Osaka Aground on Bramble Bank in the Solent
The car carrier MV Hoegh Osaka ran aground on Bramble Bank in the Solent around 21:30 GMT on Saturday. The crew of 28 was rescued and there are currently no reports of pollution. The ship was bound...
View ArticleFive Dead, Six Missing After Car Carrier Baltic Ace Sinks in Collision
Following the sinking last night of the car carrier Baltic Ace, the bodies of five sailors have been recovered. Six of the crew are missing and presumed dead in the icy waters of the North Sea. The...
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