On the day of February 18, 2022 some fires they involved some ships at sea. The first inAtlantic Ocean it concerned a ship loaded with sport cars Porsche and other cars of the Volkswagen Group, direct from Europe to the United States. After a few days from the accident the ship is sunk at a distance of approximately 220 nautical miles from the coasts of the Azores islands. On board, many of the cars that the ship was carrying were destroyed including Volkswagen (about 500), Audi (about 1,900), Porsche (about 1,100), Bentley (189) and Lamborghini (85), destined for the US state of Rhode Island.
In those days another fire broke out between Italy and Greece on board the Italian ferry Euroferry Olympia of the Grimaldi Lineswhich traveled in the Ionian Sea between the Greek port of Igoumenitsa and the Italian one of toasts.
Sunken Porsche ship destroyed
Off the Atlantic Ocean it is sunk after the ship went up in flames Felicity Ace, which was transporting Porsches and other Volkswagen Group cars to the United States. The flames, following the fire on board, started from the loading deck where there were cars expected on February 23, 2022 in the American port of DavisvilleRhode Island.
The cargo, which flew the Panamanian flag, could carry up to 4 thousand cars. They were also on board at the time of the fire 22 crew members, who were promptly evacuated. The destroyed Porsches amount to over 1,100 specimenswith an estimated loss of approx half a billion dollars. After the accident, the Volkswagen Group made it known that the cars on board the ship were all insured.
Volkswagen damaged in the sunken ship
Following the news of the fire, Porsche confirmed the incident in a note, but specifying that it has no details on the damaged cars. Volkswagen also said it is investigating with local locations to shed some light on the case.
They were on board in total 3,965 cars (Porsche, Bentely, Volkswagen, Audi and Lamborghini) destined for the North American market. The ship after attempts to be towed and rescue is sunk at a distance of about 220 nautical miles from the coasts of the Azores islands, after being hit by the waves and tilting sideways at 45 degrees.
The sinking resulted in a loss of over 4,000 carswith the car manufacturers that have contained the damage thanks to the insurance but the accident at sea will cause others delays in deliveries of these cars, with the auto industry already proven by semiconductor crisis.
Electric cars cause of the fire?
The lithium batteries of some electric cars present on board the ship may have caused the fire. This thesis, however, is still to be confirmed, but according to what was reported by the rescuers of the Portuguese navy and the Portuguese aviation, the lithium batteries at the time of the rescue attempt were causing more than a few problems to the brigade who tried to put out the fire.
In fact, according to reports to the Reuters agency João Mendes Cabeçascaptain of the nearby port of the island of Faial, in the Azores, the lithium contained in the batteries of the electric cars present in the ship they kept the fire alive. And to put out the flames definitively, the Portuguese rescuers had requested the sending of special equipment. Their efforts were thwarted bysinking at sea of the ship Felicity ACt.
Porsche ship fire destroyed, the previous accident of 2019
It is not the first time that an accident and a fire have involved a ship at sea carrying cars and Porsches.
Already in 2019 the ship of the Grimaldi, the Great Americasank on March 12 of that year near the Bay of Biscay in France with a cargo of over 2,000 cars.
Fire ferry Grimaldi between Greece and Brindisi
The second ship Grimaldi which instead caught fire in Italy was not transporting new cars, but those of the passengers direct from Greece to Brindisi. From the ship they were rescued to Corfu 278 people. Most of the passengers were hauliers Greeks and Bulgarians, but there were also several children on board the ship.
The flames, according to an initial reconstruction, would have started from a truck in the hold of the ship. In a note following the fire, Grimaldi Lines, owner of the ship, specified that “after the fire there were no fuel spills or other types of environmental damage “.
For the recovery, specialized tugs came into action, which towed the ship into the port of Astakos, on the west coast of Greece at Ithaca. Unfortunately, the budget was 7 missing and of 4 dead.
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