South of Brittany: Grande America ablaze
The container ship and car carrier had left Hamburg and was heading for Casablanca, then Dakar (Senegal), Conakry (Guinea), and Freetown (Sierra Leone). Afterwards, the ship was to carry on towards Brazil. The Grande America is 214 meters long and she flies the Italian flag. Logically, the ship is filled with used cars and a variety of second-hand vehicles, trailers, public work machinery, waste to be recycled, trailers loaded with tires, and containers with dangerous material to be used by West African major development projects or mines.
2008-2018, maritime and waterway passenger transport: more than 12,000 dead
– 272 collisions, shipwrecks and fatal fires
- Asia : 6610 fatalities
- Africa : 5014
- Oceania : 355
- America : 314
- Europe : 188
Minimal toll. In most cases, the passenger manifest has disappeared or does not match the reality.