Fremantle Highway: Electric car fire in car carrier ship

The vessel is carrying electric vehicles and is suspected to be the cause of a deadly fire, prompting an investigation as reported to Dutch media by the ship's owners, Shoei Kisen Kaisha. The car carrier named Fremantle Highway had approximately 3,000 vehicles on board and was en route to Singapore when the fire erupted. The company is currently working with local authorities, salvors, and the ship management company to extinguish the fire. While there is a strong possibility that the fire started with the electric cars on board, the exact cause is yet to be determined pending the investigation.

Rescue operations took place after receiving a fire report about 14.5 nautical miles off the northern Dutch island of Ameland. All 23 crew members were safely evacuated, but unfortunately, one person lost their life, and several others were injured during the incident. The fire is expected to continue burning for some time, and efforts are being made to cool the ship's structure and prevent further damage. The vessel is currently located near the ecologically sensitive islands of Waddensee, raising concerns about potential environmental risks if the ship were to sink.

The Waddensee area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a rich diversity of aquatic and terrestrial species, including fish and marine mammals like seals and porpoises. Therefore, preventing any environmental damage is of utmost importance.

The Fremantle Highway is a large car carrier ship, and the injured sailors, mostly from India, have been provided medical attention. Salvage operations are ongoing to minimize the damage and prevent the ship from sinking. The ship has been secured to prevent it from drifting and blocking an important sailing route into Germany.

Fires on car-carrying ships have been a significant concern for insurers, given the potential for substantial losses. A previous incident involved the sinking of the Felicity Ace in the Atlantic Ocean, carrying thousands of vehicles from a German car manufacturer.

Despite the ongoing incident, holidaymakers on Ameland's popular beaches appear unaffected, and authorities are closely monitoring the situation to handle it as effectively as possible.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230726-deadly-fire-burning-on-car-transport-ship-off-netherlands

Covid Vaccines and Cold Chain Trouble

Finally the first Covid-19 Vaccines are arriving, but with the new vaccines, complex supply-chain challenges arise.

The new Covid vaccines pose complex supply-chain challenges with regards to storage and transportation and the first news of spoiled vaccines are already arriving.

These challenging supply-chain conditions are the driver for implementing sophisticated cold chain supervision systems.

Sensefinity is using the Internet of Cargo to create real-time visibility and alarming functionalities to avoid spoilage and guarantee that the vaccines arrive at the people in perfect condition.

Sustainable Supply Chain Technology

Improving Food Security Using IoT

1.3 billion tons of food spoils and is wasted every single year, that's about one-third of the total amount of food that is produced. To look at it another way, 1.3 billion tons of food could feed between 2 and 3 billion people, each year.

Current figures suggest that of the 7 billion people on this planet, 925 million are starving, so even if we can't produce more food, saving just half of the wasted food could solve world hunger.

Read more here: Sustainable Supply-Chains.

Meet Fazla Gıda, a startup that is making a difference

Helping Retailers increase profits while helping Non-Profits with Food Donations. The amazing story of Fazla Gıda, a Turkish startup that is making a difference.

Today we talk with Olcay Silahlı.

Olcay is the founder and CEO of Fazla Gıda, a startup that helps retailers prevent food waste. Previously he worked at Deloitte and Unilever.

Sensefinity: Hi! Can you introduce yourself?

Olcay: Sure! My name is Olcay and I am the founder and CEO of Fazla Gıda. We’re based in Istanbul, Turkey. Fazla Gıda helps retailers reduce waste and promotes the circular economy towards a more sustainable world.

Sensefinity: What’s Fazla Gıda mission?

Olcay: Our mission is to reduce food waste, help non-profits and create a circular economy around food waste management. We do it by helping retailers, producers, distributors manage their unsold inventories more efficiently according to the food recovery hierarchy. We are proud to have both an economic and social impact.

Sensefinity: Why your mission matter?

Olcay: The progress of the second half of the XXth century pushed Mankind forward but also left gaps in terms of social inequality and environmental impact. We believe that, through technology, is possible to balance the economics demands with the social ones. We can simultaneously reduce waste, avoid the loss of profits while contributing to the economy and non-profits and even have an impact on health by preventing food to spoil.

Sensefinity: How does Sensefinity’s Internet-of-Cargo fit in that mission?

Olcay: One of our challenges is the transportation of fresh food between retailers stores while ensuring that temperature is always right. A constant, real-time, monitoring is fundamental as we need to be alerted as soon as we detect an anomaly. This allows us to react and fix the problem avoiding food to spoil. Using Sensefinity’s remote temperature sensors we can monitor the temperature in real-time while the fresh products are being transported between stores. We as a wholistic waste preventive solutions provider to our clients, we are happy to delivery Sensefinity solutions to our clients as well.

Sensefinity: How was the monitoring done before?

Olcay: Sometimes there was no monitoring at all! Other times the temperature was checked manually at arrival. But that is not acceptable: we need to monitor the whole journey, all the time. It’s the only way to be 100% sure that quality and safety are not compromised.

Sensefinity: How many sensors are you using nowadays?

Olcay: Right now, we are using 154 sensors with a local retailer that transports fresh products between several stores. They have stores across Turkey, from Istanbul to Izmir.

Since the results have been amazing, the retailer already asked us to increase the coverage. Besides, we’ll roll-up more retailers in 2020 and expect to operate 20.000 sensors by the end-of-the-year!

We want to be the number 1 player for food safety and the go-to company for food transportation monitoring in Turkey.

Sensefinity: Thank you very must for your testimonial. Any final words?

Olcay: Let’s use technology to make the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainability Development a reality! Towards zero waste!