It was one year ago today that the relatively new 656-foot automobile transport ship named The Golden Ray flipped over as it departed the port at Brunswick Georgia.
It's still there, sitting on its side in the shallow water, the thousands of cars inside ruined, the ship itself soon to be cut up into salvageable pieces.
The company handling the removal of the ship will cut it into eight pieces, then load each onto a barge for removal to a savage yard.
It's still there, sitting on its side in the shallow water, the thousands of cars inside ruined, the ship itself soon to be cut up into salvageable pieces.
As best as I can tell, there are Hyundai vehicles rotting away inside, but they apparently came not from the company's only U.S. plant, in Montgomery, but from one in Mexico, carried over land to Georgia and then loaded on the Golden Ray for shipment to the Middle-East.
I know that doesn't seem to make any logistical sense. The trucks carrying the vehicles would have driven a thousand or more miles, perhaps right past the Alabama plant. But the local Hyundai plant officials have said since day one that the vehicles on the ship did not come from their expanding Alabama operation.
The entire cutting-up operation should be finished by year's end.
The huge crane device shown on the left will be placed above the ship. It was use chains to cut the ship into eight pieces which will be loaded on barges and carried away. (See Animation of that process HERE.)
A barrier has been built around the Hyundai- owned ship to prevent pieces of the Golden Ray or the thousands of vehicles inside, from contaminating the water at the wreckage site.
Estimates vary, but the operation is expected to cost more than $100-Million.
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