News / One trucker dead and 10 missing after fire breaks out on Grimaldi ro-ro ferry

Grimaldi EuroFerry Olympia Belorussian lorry driver rescued.

A Greek truck driver died and 10 Bulgarian, Turkish and Greek people are unaccounted for after ro-ro Euroferry Olympia, owned and operated by Grimaldi, Caught fire in the early hours of Friday morning.

The still-smouldering vessel today is at anchor off the port of Kassiopi, in Corfu.

The vessel was carrying more than 290 passengers and crew from Igoumenitsa, in Greece, towards Brindisi, in Italy, laden with 153 trucks and 32 cars when the fire began at 4.12 am local time on ...