Cargo ship off Alaska left burning

A fire on a Cargo ship carrying electric vehicles off the coast of Alaska was left burning with salvage teams expected to intervene, according to media reports. The Alaskan coastguard received a distress call on Tuesday reporting a fire onboard the Morning Midas, a British-managed Cargo ship with 22 crew members and carrying thousands of vehicles. The crew evacuated on a lifeboat before being rescued by another private vessel. Dustin Eno, a spokesman for the ship’s management company Zodiac Maritime, said there were no firefighting vessels nearby to help extinguish the blaze. — AFP