Focus placed on two vehicles in Grimaldi ro-ro fire off New Jersey

Investigators are focusing on two vehicles out of 1,200 vehicles as part of their probe into a fire that erupted on a Grimaldi Group-owned ro-ro vessel in early July while it was being loaded in New Jersey’s Port Newark.

A blaze erupted on Grimaldi Deep Sea’s 3,950-lane-metre Grande Costa d’Avorio (built 2011) on 5 July while stevedores were finishing the loading of 1,200 used vehicles and 157 containers onto the ship.