News / Fremantle Highway blaze finally extinguished, say authorities

Fremantle Highway Fire

Photo: Dutch coastguard

By Charlie Bartlett, technology editor

02/08/2023

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 ...

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Alan Styles
August 02, 2023 at 9:21 pm
Sincere Blessings to the crew member who lost his life, and a speedy recovery to his other comrades that were rescued.
Some of these ship fires, for whatever reason, make for a very dangerous job.

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