A car-carrying ship that burned for a week on the North Sea is towed to a Dutch port for salvaging
A freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea has been towed to a Dutch port for salvage 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 board caught fire on July 25 while Travel ing from the German port city of Bremerhaven to Singapore. Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging. The fire on the Fremantle Highw...