Additional sections of a bridge across the Elbe River in the East German town of Dresden collapsed over the weekend, again prompting a 72 hour halt to shipping.
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Dali owner and operator will pay $102M to settle U.S. claim
U.S. files $100M claim against Dali owner and operator
The U.S. Department of Justice Department has announced that Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, the Singaporean corporations that owned and operated the containership Dali, have agreed to pay $101,980,000 to resolve the civil claim brought by the U.S. for costs borne in responding to the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by the ship.
The settlement resolves the United...
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VIDEO: Explosive cuts part demolish Key Bridge
Using precision explosive cuts, the Key Bridge Unified Command today demolished part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that had been pinning down the bow of the Dali, the containership whose strike on the bridge initiated its collapse. Videos posted on YouTube and on C-Span, show that the demolition did not proceed exactly as originally planned.
Initially, the plan had been to demolish the whole of the bridge section resting atop the Dali.
Today, WBAL 11 TV reported that while the simulation video...
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VIDEO: Key Bridge salvors are tackling a challenge of epic scale
New video and imagery released by the unified command show the scale of the challenge that the Key Bridge salvors face. In the current phase if the operation, salvage crews have been continuing to prepare for the complex task of removing the large piece of the Key Bridge that is pinning down the M/V Dali, the giant containership whose strike on the bridge initiated its collapse.
Prior to removing the bridge piece, Key Bridge salvage teams...
VIDEO: Work starts on Baltimore temporary alternate channel
As the first pieces of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge began to be removed, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel on the northeast side of the main channel in the vicinity of the bridge for commercially essential vessels.
How soon that will happen remains unclear, but video released yesterday by the Coast Guard showed Aids to Navigation (ATN) teams starting to drop buoys to mark the temporary alternate channel
“This will...
BREAKING: Rescue underway following Baltimore bridge collapse after ship strike
There are more questions than answers this morning as Americans wake up to the news of a 948-foot Singapore-flagged containership, chartered by Maersk, having smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., after leaving the Port of Baltimore.
The Baltimore Fire Department reported that two people were rescued from the water and taken to a local hospital in critical condition. It’s unclear how many additional casualties rescuers are trying to locate.
The Port of Baltimore announced