Baltimore bridge collapse: Ship owners to pay US$100M to settle federal lawsuit

The proprietor and manager of the cargo vessel that caused the Baltimore span collapse person agreed to wage much than $100 cardinal to settee a suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, officials said Thursday.

The colony comes a period aft the Justice Department sued Dali proprietor Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and manager Synergy Marine Group, some of Singapore, seeking to retrieve much than $100 cardinal that the authorities spent to wide the underwater debris and reopen the city’s port.

“This solution ensures that the costs of the national government’s cleanup efforts successful the Fort McHenry Channel are borne by Grace Ocean and Synergy and not the American taxpayer,” Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin Mizer said successful a statement.

The Justice Department alleged that the electrical and mechanical systems connected the ship, the Dali, were improperly maintained, causing it to suffer powerfulness and veer disconnected people earlier striking a enactment file connected the Francis Scott Key Bridge successful March.

The illness snarled commercialized shipping postulation done the Port of Baltimore for months earlier the transmission was afloat opened successful June.

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