The recent bridge collapse incident in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland was a tragedy that I believe could and should have been avoided. The bridge was built in 1977 and as can be seen from media footage, it can hardly be described as robust although it was probably adequate in the 1970s. Dali...
Seventeen people suffered varying degrees of injury after a Bulgarian cruise ship transiting the Danube River struck the side of a lock in northern Austria on Friday, March 29. The unidentified vessel, which had more than 140 passengers embarked, was sailing along the Danube near the municipality...
By Jordan Fabian (Bloomberg) President Joe Biden said he will head to Baltimore next week as the US seeks to accelerate emergency work to clear and reconstruct the collapsed Francis Scott…
https://gcaptain.com/biden-to-visit-baltimore-and-help-accelerate-salvage-efforts/
by John Konrad (gCaptain) The Unified Command started clearing debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse today. They did not specify when they will resume the salvage operation for…
https://gcaptain.com/demolition-work-begins-francis-scott-key-bridge/
by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Salvage efforts to remove the MV Dali from Baltimore’s Key Bridge were delayed indefinitely yesterday after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under…
The Hong Kong Coroner’s Court is set to conduct an inquest into a maritime incident wherein 39 people were killed after two vessels collided just off Hong Kong’s Lamma Island nearly 12 years prior. The inquest, which is scheduled to commence before the end of this year, will be held to conduct a...
By Ethan M Steinberg (Bloomberg) The owner of the ship that rammed into a Baltimore bridge could face hundreds of millions of dollars in damage claims after the accident sent vehicles plunging into…
https://gcaptain.com/titanic-era-law-could-cap-shipowner-liability-in-baltimore/
by John Konrad (gCaptain) The U.S. Army has activated an emergency operations center for the Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Baltimore. This action mobilizes over 1,100 specialists in the fields…
https://gcaptain.com/us-army-deploys-more-than-1100-specialists-to-baltimore/
By David Lawder (Reuters) – The catastrophic bridge collapse that closed the Port of Baltimore to ship traffic is unlikely to trigger a major new U.S. supply chain crisis or spike goods prices, due…
https://gcaptain.com/east-coast-ports-work-to-reroute-baltimore-cargo/
By Mike Segar and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Rescuers have lost hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse, the Coast Guard said, as efforts switched on Wednesday to looking for bodies…
https://gcaptain.com/hope-fades-for-lost-baltimore-bridge-workers/