Appalling weather conditions are set to ease in the coming days making salvage operations at Baltimore port easier. One of the operations set to get underway will be to start taking undamaged cargo off the Dali, the 9,962 teu ship on charter to Maersk that hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key...
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This will come as little surprise to Marine Log readers, though it may come as a shocker to many in Baltimore. The owner and manager of the Dali, the containership that struck the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, filed a petition in U.S. District Court April 1 seeking exoneration from or limitation of liability in relation to the incident.
Similar petitions under the Shipowners Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, which limits claims to the value of a vessel plus any outstanding...
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Sonar images released yesterday show the magnitude of the job that divers and salvage workers face as they begin to remove the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge strewn across the main shipping channel into the port of Baltimore. Eight days on from the moment the 9,962 teu Dali containership...
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As the first vessel successfully transited the Baltimore temporary channel established following the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Unified Command responding to the disaster announced plans to establish a second alternate channel.
The first vessel transiting the temporary channel, at 3.00 p.m. yesterday was the tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge used to supply jet fuel to the Department of Defense, It was transiting to Dover Air Force Base.
The first...
Grace Ocean, the owner of the 10,000 TEU ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge, has filed a petition asking the courts to at least limit the company’s liability to the value of the vessel.
Lawyers from Duane Morris and Blank Rome, acting for Grace Ocean and ship manager Synergy Marine filed the petition with the Maryland District Court yesterday, claiming that the owner and ship manager are not responsible for the accident.
“The Casualty was not due to any fault, neglect,...
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Maersk Line is ready to offer services through several gateways from eastern Canada, down to the southern Atlantic Ocean and US Gulf, as it is impossible to ship goods into Baltimore after Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on 26 March.
The Danish carrier said on 1 April that port and rail operators on the eastern coast of the US and Canada have been “very supportive and collaborative” to develop solutions to support containers temporarily diverted to alternative ports.
Maersk noted in a customer...
Ahead of what will be years of legal wrangling, the owner and manager of the world’s most discussed ship, the Dali, have sought to limit potential pay-outs from last week’s Baltimore bridge allision. Singapore-based Grace Ocean and shipmanager Synergy Marine filed a limitation of liability court...
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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...
O little town of Baltimore
I lived in Baltimore City for 12 years so it’s impossible for me to not have a lot of mixed thoughts about the town. It has a vibrant financial community and I loved the local running groups. It’s also the only place where I was ever punched in the head on my way home from work.
I toured the container and ro-ro terminals and the coal export terminals at Baltimore on separate occasions. What was memorable to me is that the Lamborghinis and luxury European imports are not...
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