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June 4 (Reuters) - The unit of a cargo vessel carrying astir 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electrical vehicles, abandoned it disconnected nan seashore of Alaska aft a occurrence collapsed retired onboard, its usability Zodiac Maritime said connected Wednesday.
The 22 unit members were safely evacuated from nan vessel aft they grounded to put retired nan fire, Zodiac said arsenic it focuses connected salvaging nan vessel.
They were evacuated via lifeboat and were being transferred to a adjacent merchant alloy successful tandem pinch nan U.S. Coast Guard.
The vessel, Morning Midas, was located 300 miles (482.8 km) southwest of Adak successful Alaska, nan Coast Guard said connected its X account.
The Liberia-flagged vessel near China’s Yantai larboard connected May 26 and was connected nan measurement to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, according to LSEG data.
Smoke was initially seen rising from a platform loaded pinch EVs, nan institution said. It is not clear what marque of vehicles nan vessel was carrying.
EV-related fires connected ships are challenging to extinguish owed to nan power generated and consequence of reignition, which could persist for days.
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The Coast Guard said aircrew and a cutter vessel person been sent to assistance pinch nan business and 3 vessels were already connected nan scene.
In 2022, a vessel carrying 4,000 luxury cars, including Porsches and Bentleys, sank disconnected nan Portuguese Azores archipelago astir 2 weeks aft it caught fire.
Fires onboard vessels, peculiarly connected instrumentality ships, car carriers and roll-on/roll-off ships are a large interest for insurers.
Steamship Mutual, 1 of nan insurers of Morning Midas, did not respond to a Reuters petition for comment.
Such incidents crossed each alloy segments deed nan highest level successful a decade successful 2024, according to insurer Allianz Commercial.
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“The reality is nan consequence remains important owed to nan size of these ships and nan complexities progressive successful firefighting and salvage,” Allianz said successful its 2025 information and shipping reappraisal report.
(Reporting by Shubham Kalia, Rajveer Singh Pardesi and Nathan Gomes successful Bengaluru; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Arun Koyyur)
