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Volkswagen said on Wednesday evening that the IT disruption caused production to halt at its four vehicle manufacturing plants in Germany — its Wolfsburg headquarters, Emden, Zwickau and Osnabrueck.

That ship, the Felicity Ace, had been at sea for six days after leaving Emden, Germany, for the port of Davisville, R.I., when a fire erupted in the cargo hold.

Roughly 300 of the 1,500 temporary workers at its factory in Emden, Germany, will not be renewed for work in August.

Volkswagen is confident that capacity utilisation at the Emden plant will increase again with the market launch of the ID.7 at the end of the year, Hauss said.

Born in Emden in 1941, Petersen scored his first major success with World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot, which earned him two Oscar nominations.