The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas was built in 2006 and sails under a Liberian flag. The car and truck carrier left Yantai, China, on May 26, according to the industry site marinetraffic.com. It was headed to a major Pacific port in Mexico.

The crew of a cargo ship carrying thousands of vehicles from China to Mexico had to abandon the vessel off Alaska's Adak Island when they were unable to control a fire that broke out on board. The Liberian-flagged Morning Midas ship is carrying 3,

Midas caught fire Tuesday roughly 300 miles from Adak, Alaska. The ship was carrying thousands of vehicles when it erupted.