AIS ship tracking data shows the Marshall Islands-flagged Golden Ray was outbound from the port when it became disabled. The ship has a destination of Baltimore.
We need car-carrier control. Those assault car carriers are really deadly. Why should a car carrier be allowed to carry so many cars. Isn’t one enough? And were those sacred environmental cars? Or were they the devils gas guzzlers?
A lot of questions to ask. Never mind the answers. The seriousness of the questions is what we should be concerned abot.
On the bright side, I know where you can get a Mercedes really cheap.
It rolled over on it’s side. If it had “capsized” more people would have died.
RORO...Roll on Roll off ships are notoriously unstable. Most sailors call them Roll on Roll over. Prayers for the families of the brave sailors who have been lost.
Soon environmental terrorists will claim, like Antifa, that the sinking of ships delivering vehicles with internal combustion engines is morally justifiable.
Another article says it’s a two year old ship owned by Hyundai.
Very sad. I was just up there yesterday and we were talking about the enormous amount of shipping that goes out of that port. When you go up there, you’ll see huge parking lots. The US companies deliver cars there and then they’re taken on to other destinations, in the US or abroad.
There’s a massive BMW staging area there. Drove by there a couple months ago and could see hundreds, if not thousands, of new Beamers waiting to be moved. There is a BMW plant in Spartanburg, SC so I hope they were being exported and not imported.
It doesn’t even look like rough seas.
Seems to be riding too high if she was loaded with 4000+ cars.
She looks to me more resting on her port side on a bar or something.
On air news are reporting this morning that there are “sounds” coming from the hull. Raising hopes that the 4 missing crew are alive and signaling