World News 16-12-2002 who: Salvage company SMIT what: Says 2,862 cars will be written off as sea transporter sinks where: English Channel when: Yesterday snippet: "They weren`t cheap cars," said Smit`s Lars Walder who is coordinating a salvage operation on the car transporter Tricolor, which sank in the world`s busiest shipping-lane on Saturday night. "But then they are no longer aligned in neatly parked rows. You wouldn`t want to drive a BMW if it had been knocked about on the sea bottom and had its engine soaked in salt water - even if it was German-manufactured." BBC News is reporting that a second vessel, the 3,000 tonne Nicola, has this morning rammed into the wreck. [... more]

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