Two tugboats are slowly but steadily towing the burning Fremantle Highway to a location 16 kilometers north of Schiermonnikoog. In this new, temporary location, the freighter is further from the shipping routes and other ships and also a bit more out of the wind. “It’s a safer place,” Edwin de Feijter of the public works department Rijkswaterstaat Noord-Nederland told Omrop Fryslan.
A broken car bridge left about a hundred passengers stuck on the ferry from Ameland to Holwert on Monday evening. The ferry eventually sailed back to Ameland with the trapped passengers and their cars still on board. They were sheltered on the Wadden island in the hope that they could return to the mainland and get off there on Tuesday morning, NOS reports.