Fire on Cargo Ship Full of Luxury Cars Subsides, With Little Left to Burn

Cargo ship Felicity Ace is on fire in the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 17, 2022. Courtesy of Portuguese Navy

Firefighters have been struggling to extinguish flames on a massive cargo ship that caught fire last week while adrift off the coast of Portugal’s Azorean islands, a port official said.

João Mendes Cabeças, the captain of a port in the island region, said lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles on board the vessel are possibly “keeping the fire alive” and it might take some more time to douse the flames, also noting that the blaze had greatly lost its intensity.