Costly Cargo Lost in Sunken Norwegian Ship

World | December 15, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Nearly 3,000 new luxury cars on board a carrier ship which sank in the English Channel are almost certainly write-offs, salvage experts have said. The multi-million pound cargo of vehicles, including BMWs, Volvos and Saabs, is lying on the seabed inside the sunken Norwegian carrier ship the Tricolor. The 55,000-ton vessel sank after colliding with a 20,000-ton container vessel in the early hours of Saturday. A salvage company is sending a ship to the area with divers on board to try to find a way of removing the wreck - lying in about 25m of water.

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