this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
171 points (99.4% liked)

News

23409 readers
3268 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The owners of a container ship that crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge have been ordered to pay the US government more than $100m (£77.1m) in damages, the US justice department has announced.

Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, the companies that owned and operated the Dali have agreed to pay, resolving a month-long civil lawsuit.

The justice department called the 26 March collision that killed six and sent tonnes of debris into the river "one of the worst transportation disasters in recent memory".

Payment will go to the US Treasury and other federal agencies directly affected by the collision or involved in the response.

top 10 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Gigasser 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sigh, the settlement won't cover much of the rebuild, which is supposedly estimated to be around 1.9 billon, nearly 2 billion.

[–] UnpopularCrow 85 points 1 month ago

The bridge is owned by Maryland, and they are also suing for the reconstruction of the bridge. This settlement was for the disaster recovery effort.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This was completely separate from the suit to rebuild the bridge, as per the article. People really need to read the articles instead of glancing at headlines and feeling the need to comment something ignorant.

[–] carl_dungeon 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Alex jones got hit worse than this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is only for the disaster recovery efforts.

There is more to come.

[–] carl_dungeon 2 points 1 month ago

Let’s hope!!

[–] aeronmelon 10 points 1 month ago

Makes sense, Alex Jones is worse than this.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker 9 points 1 month ago

While I agree that this amount is too low, I think Alex Jones has done more damage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

"one of the worst transportation disasters...... (He trails off realizing) In recent memory!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imo not having any safety measures for the bridge piers was extremely negligent. There was this picture where you'd see cable masts next to the bridge that were being secured by extra thick concrete islands (you can actually spot one in the headline image). Really makes it look like the safety of some cables was more important than the safety of a bridge / people.

Edit: Ofc the incident was caused by the ship