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  • A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging

    08/07/2023 2:14:57 PM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    ap ^ | August 3, 2023 | PETER DEJONG
    EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands — Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a protected habitat for birds. The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution. The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones, on...