A massive ship carrying 3,000 vehicles is burning off the coast Netherlands — and it's spurring concerns over fire risks from EVs
said on its blog that 23 crew members were evacuated, but one person died. The cause of the fire is still unknown. It was still burning as of 10.21 p.m. local time on Thursday.
"The fire is still burning, and there is still a lot of smoke. But the intensity of the fire seems to have diminished compared with yesterday," the Dutch Coast Guard said, per an The Dutch Coast Guard said the cause of the fire is still unknown, but there isJust 25 or less than 1% of the 2,857 vehicles on board the Fremantle Highway were electric vehicles.
"There is already a whole lot of communication underway about this," he said,"but with this incident, it becomes apparent we might need to speed up the process, especially when you consider that the number of this sort of cars is only going to rise," Nathan Habers, the spokesperson for the Dutch shipowners' association told Reuters.
There were 209 ship fires reported in 2022 — the highest number in a decade and 17% more than in 2021, according to a May report from insurer
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