Half a year after the accident, the owner of the Deli reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice and will pay 92 million euros in compensation for the collapse of the Baltimore bridge, which left 6 victims.
The owner of the container ship Dali, the 1,000-foot ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Highway Bridge in Baltimore in March, killing six people, has agreed to pay more than $100 million in compensation. of compensation. .
According to the Washington Post, the US Department of Justice and the principal deputy attorney general’s office in Maryland filed a lawsuit against Grace Ocean Private Limited and operator Synergy Marine Pte Ltd on September 18. In the action they requested more than 100 million dollars in compensation to, according to the authorities, pay the expenses of the US government after the collapse of the bridge.
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Payment will then be sent to the US federal agencies affected by the incident. In turn, the state of Maryland is trying to obtain separate compensation.
“This is an extraordinary result that fully compensates the United States for the costs incurred in responding to this catastrophe and holds the owner and operator of the Dali accountable,” the senior deputy attorney general said in a statement. “The rapid resolution of this matter also avoids the expenses associated with litigating this complex case for potentially years.”
According to the American newspaper, the lawsuit alleges that Dalí suffered crew-related mechanical and electrical failures four minutes before the collision on the bridge. The Justice Department also alleges that support intended to help control the ship when the two blackouts occurred did not work and these failures could have been avoided if the two entities had not neglected safety issues and hired poorly trained personnel.
On March 26, the container ship Dali broke down and collided with the Francis Scott Key Highway Bridge, causing it to collapse. Six workers carrying out repair work on the bridge died, all Latin American immigrants.
The 300-meter-long Singapore-flagged vessel partially blocked the access channel to the important commercial port on the east coast of the United States until it was removed on May 20.
Source: Observadora
