A 60,000-ton freighter with more than 4,000 luxury vehicles caught fire in the waters off the Portuguese Azores – the news that everyone should have seen, and today, according to the news, the ship sank off the coast of Europe and suffered heavy losses.
In fact, the freighter has been on fire on February 16, continued to burn for more than a week, the ship is basically loaded with Volkswagen Group cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and other luxury brand models, of which the number of Porsche models is 1100, there are many expensive models, such as the $272,000 Porsche 911 Turbo S, the $192,000 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT and so on.
Regarding the cause of the fire accident, the relevant departments have not given a precise explanation, some people have analyzed that the ship is equipped with a large number of electric vehicles, which may be the battery fire on the car caused by the spread of the fire, but this is only a speculation, the cause of the accident will sink with the freighter forever into the 3500-meter depth of the seabed.
Volkswagen, the bearer of the accident, declared in a statement: "We are concerned that most of the parts of nearly 4,000 vehicles of several brands of the Group were severely damaged in the fire and could no longer be delivered to the subscriber." However, the impact of the accident on the profits of the Volkswagen Group is minimal, because these losses will be borne by the insurance company, and the Volkswagen Group said that the total amount of vehicle claims caused by the accident may reach 155 million US dollars, or about 980 million yuan.
Netizens have expressed their views on this news:
1 Hundreds or thousands of years later, a team of archaeologists discovered the advanced means of transportation of ancient humans here
2 Tesla: "I can go to heaven", Porsche: "I can go to the sea".
3 SpongeBob SquarePants and Pai Daxing have a car driving
4 For shipping, the absence of thousands of cars is nothing at all If a crude oil ship sinks, the cost of environmental remediation alone can crush a company
5 When a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea, when a ship becomes a mystery
6 Curious if these cars will pollute the marine environment
7 The insurance company cries faint in the toilet
8 Atlantic: Ten billion subsidies are a real bargain
Coincidentally, Volkswagen is not the first time to encounter such an accident, in 2019, it encountered a cargo ship "Grand America" loaded with more than 2,000 cars sank off the coast of France.