The fire that broke out in the "KRITI II" have been caused by a short circuit in a refrigerator truck that carried in the hold of carefully consider officers of the fire, trying to identify the causes of the massive destruction.
Overall burned 18 trucks of which six were seriously damaged.
The remaining 12 were damaged in the back and the merchandise.
Officers of the Fire tried to remove the six trucks from the interior of the vessel, a process that lasted several hours as a result of the fire had burned the brake and air resulting in vehicles can not be safely transported off the ship.
Investigations of fire fighting centered on a truck-fridge, which came out when the ship was found to have suffered severe damage to Inside, not justified by the fiery cargo spaces of the ship.
The body had melted due to high temperature, which means that the fire slowly burning hours before the ship reaches the port of Patras. And it is purely a matter of chance that the extension of the fire was not halfway through the journey, where the fire forces would be impossible to reach.