The burnt Sincerity Ace, carrying around 4,000 cars, is on its way back to Asia, likely to a Japanese yard, nine days after a blaze killed five with the remaining 16 crew picked up having abandoned the blazing car carrier in the middle of the Pacific.
, carrying around 4,000 cars, is on its way back to Asia, likely to a Japanese yard, “Our thoughts and prayers are with the crew and their loved ones during this difficult time,” the vessel’s Japanese owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha said in a statement sent to Splash.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
The Sincerity Ace disaster is the latest in a series of major car carrier accidents that have hit the sector harder than most shipping segments over the past decade.
