The most serious incident off the Dutch coast happened in 2012 when a car carrier collided with a container ship.
“All 23 crew members have now been evacuated off the ship” with the use of helicopters and a boat, the Dutch coast guard said on its website. The Fremantle Highway is an 18,500-tonne car carrier ship and was sailing between Bremerhaven in Germany and Port Said in Egypt when the blaze broke out, according to the marinetraffic.com website.Salvage vessels were on the scene trying to put out the blaze and prevent the ship from sinking, the NOS national broadcaster said.But the fire developed so quickly that it was no longer safe to bring those firefighters on board.
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