The car carrier Sincerity Ace has arrived in Japan a month after a massive cargo fire that forced its crew to abandon ship in the Pacific in early January.

AIS data shows the 5,221-ceu vessel (built 2009) arrived in Subushi Bay on the south-western Japanese island of Kyushu late last week.

The vessel was towed there by a 10,000-bhp anchor handling tug supply vessel, the Koyo Maru (built 1998), which was contracted by Japanese salvor Nippon Salvage.