3,965 luxury cars up in smoke

[Petrus1983]

A container ferry carrying Porsche, Audis, Lamborghinis and Bentleys has caught fire off the coast of Portugal en route to the States. 22 crew have been rescued.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60429584

[46and2]

I call salvage rights.

[Nickbrapp]

I wonder if all those people waiting for delivery now go to the back of the build slot line or get bumped up?

[classicaholic]

Seems a strange route going past Portugal between Germany and RI

[Jim the Sunderer]

Petrus1983 said:

A container ferry carrying Porsche, Audis, Lamborghinis and Bentleys has caught fire off the coast of Portugal en route to the States. 22 crew have been rescued.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60429584

No grocer's apostrophes, I'm impressed.

Nearly 4000 vehicles in the drink sounds like a massive insurance payout.
Edit: I didn't read the article properly.

[tannhauser]

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

[Nickbrapp]

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

Because they do it everyday and nothings happened since that one full of Mercedes’ sank about 20 years sgo

[lufbramatt]

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

It’s not a container ship it’s basically a huge car ferry specifically designed for transporting vehicles.

[Electronicpants]

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

Let me just wheel this old gal out, genuinely not sure

[SunsetZed]

lufbramatt said:

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

It’s not a container ship it’s basically a huge car ferry specifically designed for transporting vehicles.

Yip I see ships like this daily, don't start me on the number of brand new vehicles that sit on the top deck exposed to the elements.

[TCEvo]

Nickbrapp said:

I wonder if all those people waiting for delivery now go to the back of the build slot line or get bumped up?

Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tyre has been Tweeting about this as he has a new, personally spec'd Boxster on there.

Indication's a new build replacement; but he hasn't mentioned timeframe (although assume that nothing will be clear until the ship's problem's resolved one way or another).

[CraigyMc]

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

I note that all the cars are from the VW group of companies. It was probably chartered specifically to avoid shipping delays.

[MarkJS]

classicaholic said:

Seems a strange route going past Portugal between Germany and RI

If you look where the Azores are located, you’ll get the idea.

[andy43]

classicaholic said:

Seems a strange route going past Portugal between Germany and RI

It wasn't off the coast of mainland Portugal - it was the the Azores islands which are portuguese. They're kind of in the middle of the Atlantic so maybe their coastguard were nearest when the ship caught fire.

[Earthdweller]

Nickbrapp said:

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

Because they do it everyday and nothings happened since that one full of Mercedes’ sank about 20 years sgo

It’s quite a regular occurrence, there was the MV Höegh Osaka in the Solent in 2015, another one in the North Sea in 2012 where about 11 crew perished MV Baltic Sea, there was the Cougar Ace that went down with 5k cars on it off USA in 2006, as well as I think the one you referred to the Tricolour which went down in the English Channel loaded with 3000 BMW,Saab and Volvo cars in 2002

There’s others as well

[poo at Paul's]

Wonder if any of them were electric…………?

[NMNeil]

They may start getting washed up on the beach
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whimsica...

[anonymous-user]

There should be a shipping setting to deploy all the airbags if the car gets wet, so that they float safely back to shore.

[Stick Legs]

Petrus1983 said:

A container ferry carrying Porsche, Audis, Lamborghinis and Bentleys has caught fire off the coast of Portugal en route to the States. 22 crew have been rescued.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60429584

Not everyone is up on ship types but it’s a dedicated vehicle carrier.

Usually referred to as a Car Carrier.

Not a ferry, no containers.

[tannhauser]

Nickbrapp said:

tannhauser said:

Why would you put so many cars - especially luxury cars - on one vessel?!

It doesn’t make sense.

Because they do it everyday and nothings happened since that one full of Mercedes’ sank about 20 years sgo

Pretty sure there’s been one since...