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In July 2023, the 6,200 ceu Fremantle Highway suffered a fire in the North Sea that burnt for a week. The cause of the fire remains unknown but its ferocity was made worse by electric vehicles on board. Most of the seafarers abandoned ship but one died. As the frequency of shipboard fires involving electric vehicles (EVs) continues to climb, experts warn of new hazards while others claim that nothing has changed. “A lot of people are saying it’ll never happen to us,” Adrian Scales told Seatrade Maritime News last week. The Chartered Master. A report by insurance major Allianz noted that the increasing transport of lithium-ion batteries poses a growing hazard to maritime shipping due to the fire risk and the high value of cargo on vehicle carriers. Representative image. Photo: Freepik A cargo ship carrying thousands of vehicles sank in. A car transporter ship was abandoned after catching fire in the Pacific. Morning Midas is carrying over 3,000 cars, including 70 electric vehicles. The crew of 22 was saved but they failed to bring the blaze under control. Update 2: A massive cargo ship still smoldering off the coast of Alaska is. A car carrier transporting about 3,000 vehicles across the Pacific was abandoned after an uncontrolled fire broke out onboard. The ship, named Morning Midas, was carrying around 750 electric and hybrid vehicles when smoke was first detected on one of the decks. This marks the second major maritime. The vehicle carrier Morning Midas has been abandoned in the mid-Pacific (USCG photo from June 3) Published Jun 4, 2025 10:33 AM by The Maritime Executive The vehicle carrier Morning Midas was abandoned on Tuesday afternoon, June 3 in the mid-Pacific some 300 miles southwest of the remote Aleutian. A large fire on a ship carrying 3,784 new cars from off the coast of the Netherlands last month was unlikely caused by an electric vehicle (EV), says the boss of the salvage company handling the wreck. The Fremantle Highway, a Panama-flagged car and truck carrier chartered by K Line, was en route.