A serious accident occurred again to a ship of owned by the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha. Tonight the Dutch Coast Guard received a communication from the car carrier Fremantle Highway, match from Germany to Singapore, which reported the flare-up of A fire on board at 23.45 yesterday while he was sailing to 27 kilometers north of Ameland. On the ship, as rendered known by the Coast Guard of the Netherlands, 23 members were present of the crew (21, all of Indian nationality, according to the Shoei Kisen) who tried to extinguish the flames without success And one seaman died and many others were injured. The Seafarers were evacuated by helicopters and lifeboats of rescue. The subsequent intervention of naval rescue vessels and Firefighting has not yet allowed to tame the flames.

Shoei Kisen Kaisha owns Ever Given, The portacontainer of the capacity of 20 thousand teu that in March 2021 had run aground while crossing the Suez Canal causing The six-day blockade of maritime traffic in the important route of Egyptian water and causing a sharp slowdown in activity maritime on the Asia-Europe route ( of 24 and 30 March 2021).

The pure car carrier Fremantle Highway, of 59,525 tons of gross tonnage and built in 2013, it is long 199.97 meters and 32.26 wide.