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Baltimore battles ship owners’ effort to limit liability in bridge collapse (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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The city said the companies’ effort to limit responsibility for the vessel and the cargo’s value to $43.6 million is “substantially less than the amount that will be claimed for losses and damages” arising out of the Dali’s collision with the Key Bridge.

The owners of the Dali cargo ship were negligent and should be held fully liable for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which killed six people, the city of Baltimore said in court filings Monday.

In response to the vessel owners’ petition filed in U.S. District Court this month seeking to limit their liability, Mayor Brandon Scott and the Baltimore City Council argued Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd. “put a clearly unseaworthy vessel into the water," and they called the companies’ actions “grossly and potentially criminally negligent.”

The city of Baltimore is demanding a jury trial, saying the companies’ effort to limit responsibility for the vessel and the cargo’s value at $43.6 million is “substantially less than the amount that will be claimed for losses and damages arising out of the Dali’s allision [collision] with the Key Bridge.”

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[–] Somethingcheezie 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don’t all harbours have “pilots” who come out and guide ships in and out of their harbours. Sort for the sole purpose of avoiding things like bridges

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Genuine question: are you saying the harbor pilot/guide/whatever should have somehow simply fixed a total loss of power and control surfaces caused by negligent maintenance practices on a ship larger than the spaceship Enterprise instead of using those few minutes warning authorities to limit death and damage?

[–] stoly 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Pilots are experts on their particular harbor, channel, etc. They have no responsibility though, that’s all on the captain, ship owners, etc.

Also it’s pretty clear that you somehow know nothing about this incident.

[–] Somethingcheezie 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not American nothing close to local news. Lots going on in the world and most worse and makes you want to avoid the news.

[–] BangCrash -2 points 7 months ago

Yet you decided to voice your opinion on a matter that you know nothing about?