Cargo on a Grimaldi Group-operated ro-ro vessel off New Jersey has been fully removed a month after a fire erupted on the ship as a multiagency investigation into the blaze continues.

A fire broke out on an upper level of Grimaldi Deep Sea’s 3,950-lane-metre Grande Costa d’Avorio (built 2011) on 5 July while stevedores finished loading 1,200 vehicles and 157 containers onto the ship, which was berthed in Port Newark.