News / Fremantle Highway blaze finally extinguished, say authorities

Photo: Dutch coastguard

After burning for almost a week, the fire on car-carrier Fremantle Highway has been extinguished, Dutch authorities said today.

Early reports suggested the vessel was carrying only 25 electric vehicles (EVs), but later reports revealed this was a drastic underestimate and there were a considerably higher number aboard, making up a higher proportion of EVs than on Felicity Ace, a vessel which sank last year after a similar catastrophic fire.

However the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Waste Management (Rijkswaterstaat) confirmed there ...