 During the early hours of 14 December 2002, MV Tricolor (ex Nosac Sun, built in 1987) was sailing from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Southampton, U.K., with a load of nearly 2871 brand new BMW, Volvo and SAAB automobiles.She collided in the English Channel with mv Kariba, a 1982 Bahamian-flagged container ship.Kariba was able to continue on, but Tricolor sank and required salvage by wreck cutting.