A cargo ship carrying luxurycars from Germany to the U.S. sank in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday a week after a blaze prompted the crew to evacuate.
The Felicity Ace vessel was reportedly carrying around 4,000 vehicles — among them Porsche, Audi, Bentley, and Lamborghini vehicles — worth an estimated $400 million.
Joao Mendes Cabecas, the captain of a nearby port, told the news outlet that when the recovery crews began to tow the vessel, the Felicity Ace “lost its stability and sank.” The cause of the blaze is unlikely to ever be known, though some suggested it could have been the result of a malfunction with an electric car’s lithium-ion battery.
“We are already working to replace every car affected by this incident and the first new cars will be built soon,” Porsche told the Associated Press.An estimate published by risk solutions company Russell Group suggested that the Felicity Ace cargo vessel was carrying around $400 million worth of vehicles.
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