"Burnt Car Carrier Safely Reaches Port, Averting Disaster on Fremantle Highway"

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"Burnt Car Carrier Safely Reaches Port, Averting Disaster on Fremantle Highway"
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The burnt car carrier, Fremantle Highway, which caught fire in the North Sea carrying nearly 4,000 cars, has been towed into port in the Netherlands after a 64km journey. The ship had left Germany en route to Egypt when the fire broke out, resulting in the death of one crew member. Salvage experts believe the fire may have started in the battery of an electric vehicle. With fears of an environmental disaster, the ship was brought into port due to imminent bad weather. Now that it is safely in port, salvage work can commence.

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