The Grimaldi Group announces that its ro/ro vessel Grande Europa was hit by a fire that broke out on board during the night of the 15th May, while she was sailing about 25 miles from Palma de Mallorca.
Built in 1998, the Italian-flagged unit owned by the Neapolitan group had left the port of Salerno in the afternoon of Monday 13th May, bound to the Spanish port of Valencia. On board there were 25 crew members and a cargo consisting of 1,687 vehicles (cars, vans, trucks, excavators, etc), the...