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When 3,783 Cars Became a Floating Inferno: The Fremantle Mystery
When 3,783 Cars Became a Floating Inferno: The Fremantle Mystery
The North Sea night filled with smoke before flames were even visible, as 3,783 brand-new cars and roughly 1.6 million liters of fuel burned aboard the MV Fremantle Highway-turning a routine car carrier into a nine-day floating inferno. How did a ship carrying nearly 500 electric vehicles and 1,600 tonnes of heavy fuel oil become the scene of one fatality, an ecological emergency next to the Wadden Sea, and an official mystery about the fire’s origin?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the ignition on July 25, 2023…
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