Big Boat Stuck

Canadian Coast Guard

Happy Friday! It's September 12, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift — your regular roundup of nan apical automotive headlines from astir nan world, successful 1 place. This is wherever you'll find nan astir important stories that are shaping nan measurement Americans thrust and get around.

In this morning's edition, we're looking astatine nan latest large cargo vessel to get stuck, arsenic good arsenic nan fallout from Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ambush connected nan Hyundai-LG artillery plant. We'll besides look astatine Canada's evolving attack to world trade, and Rivian's latest recall. 

Canadian Coast Guard

We're fans of a big vessel stuck story, and we've sewage a awesome one: The cargo vessel MV Thamesborg ran aground past Saturday successful nan Northwest Passage, because apparently we each unrecorded successful 1845 now and request to interest astir our ships making it done nan Arctic. At slightest there's a scheme to woody pinch this one, which is amended than Sir John Franklin's expedition ever got. From Nunatsiaq News:

A scheme to salvage nan cargo vessel Thamesborg is underway aft nan Canadian Coast Guard completed aerial and remote-operated conveyance surveys of nan vessel, which sits grounded successful nan Franklin Strait.

The 172-metre Dutch cargo ship, owned by Royal Wagenborg, ran aground Saturday while transiting nan Northwest Passage connected its measurement to Baie Comeau, Que., from Asia. It was carrying c blocks for business use.

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An update issued by nan institution precocious Thursday said nan vessel remains unchangeable and location is simply a scheme for a salvage maestro and naval designer to subordinate Thamesborg by nan extremity of nan week.

Franklin's ships were named Erebus (the Greek deity of darkness) and Terror, and I ideate his sailors encountered both. Thamesborg seems to much aliases little mean "paying bail money to nan stream Thames," which I ideate is not a business nan unit of nan Thamesborg will tally into. Probably not, astatine least. 

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ICE's raid connected Hyundai's caller artillery plant is possibly best described arsenic a fiasco. The statement had warrants for 4 people, it arrested 475, and now 300 South Koreans person returned location — improbable to grace American ungraded again immoderate clip soon. That past portion is proving tricky for Hyundai, since it still needs group to put its mill together. From nan Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. government's migration ambush connected Hyundai Motor's Georgia artillery works tract will group backmost building by 2 aliases 3 months, according to Chief Executive José Muñoz.

"All these group want to get back" home, Muñoz said Thursday connected nan sidelines of an automotive convention successful Detroit. More than 300 Koreans were released early Thursday and departed midday from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

But nan expertise those labor and statement workers had can't beryllium easy replaced, Muñoz said. "You request to spot really tin you capable those positions? And then, for nan astir part, those group are not successful nan U.S."

Much of nan rumor present seems to boil down to nan American visa system, which is possibly champion described arsenic "bad." The South Korean workers had visas, but American authorities said they weren't rather nan correct visas for nan activity nan Koreans were doing. Thus, 475 group were virtually chained up and led onto buses. 

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The United States has agelong been nan awesome conveyance marketplace successful North America, by elemental income measurement alone. But that's changing, acknowledgment to our tariffs, and now Canada wants to guarantee that our full waste and acquisition warfare doesn't effect our bluish neighbors' expertise to get European cars. From Automotive News Canada:

One of Canada's apical waste and acquisition officials utilized a travel this week to Germany and nan U.K. to fortify ties pinch nan countries arsenic a measurement to offset tense waste and acquisition relations pinch nan United States.

"The U.S. doesn't look to beryllium a reliable partner successful nan adjacent future, and that brings america to nan EU and nan U.K. arsenic we look to turn investment," Vic Fedeli, Ontario curate of economic, occupation creation and trade, told Automotive News Europe.

Fedeli, who was successful Germany for nan IAA Munich car show arsenic good arsenic respective meetings pinch business and governmental leaders, is bullish astir keeping nan momentum his state has achieved pursuing caller moves made by Stellantis and Volkswagen Group that use Ontario.

Canada, please, adopt EU standards for cars. Put much unit connected america to switch retired our regulations. You tin make nan automotive world amended here. 

Rivian

It's callback clip again, but support those drinks sealed — this one isn't from Ford. It's Rivian's move astatine bat, recalling complete 24,000 R1S and R1T SUVs and trucks for issues pinch nan road driving assistance software. Apparently crashing while moving driver assistance package is bad. From Reuters:

Rivian is recalling 24,214 R1S and R1T electrical vehicles owed to a package defect that whitethorn origin its hands-free Highway Assist strategy to misidentify lead vehicles, nan U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said connected Friday.

The rumor affects definite 2025 Rivian vehicles moving an older package type successful nan United States, nan NHTSA said.

Rivian has issued an over-the-air package update to hole nan problem, nan NHTSA added.

The defect was identified aft an incident involving a 2025 R1S exemplary vehicle, wherever nan strategy misclassified a low-speed conveyance and nan driver grounded to support control.

Luckily, this is nan benignant of callback that's easy connected owners. Your Rivian downloads an update, and that's it — problem solved. No wonderment automakers are truthful bullish connected software. 

Bonus On The Radio cogwheel this morning! I saw Sammus execute successful nan basement of a utilized book shop successful Rochester, NY once. Great show. 

Yesterday was, indeed, a Big Jueves. New Health connected nan way, and I'm excited.