Clusterkiss

  

"In the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, Møller-Maersk was ranked as the 174th largest public company in the world "

"Dali was sold from Stellar Marine to Grace Ocean, a Singaporean company, in October 2016; she was placed under the management of Synergy Marine and reflagged as Singaporean.  

A faulty fuel pressure gauge was detected at the port of San Antonio, Chile, in June 2023; the gauge was replaced and no faults were detected at a further check three months later.  

On 26 March 2024, shortly after leaving the Port of Baltimore with a crew of 22 and two Maryland pilots en route to Colombo, Sri Lanka, the ship lost power and struck a support pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse. " 

"Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine Group filed a joint petition on 1 April in the Maryland U.S. District Court to limit their 

 liability to about $43.6 million 

 under the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851. 

 Chief judge James K. Bredar is overseeing the proceedings" 

"On 23 April, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore filed papers, in the Northern District of Maryland, seeking a jury trial within the district, to obtain compensation from Grace Ocean Private Limited of Singapore (Owners), and Synergy Marine PE Ltd of Singapore (managers), for the resultant financial losses.  

The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants provided an incompetent, inattentive, improperly trained, improperly supervised crew, on an improperly maintained and unseaworthy vessel, resulting in the bridge collapse, harming the city." 

"Dali departed to China in September 2024." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali 

"On March 27, Moore and Biden thanked Dali's crew 

 for transmitting the mayday call warning of the ship's power failure and the impending collision." 

"President Joe Biden, too, had promised during a news conference hours after the collapse  

that the federal government would foot the entire bill  

for a new bridge, now estimated to cost as much as $1.9 billion.  

Federal law already would pay for 90 percent of the expense, but without the balance paid by federal cash,  

Maryland has cut roughly $170 million from its own transportation projects to finance building the new bridge."  

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"the inclusion of all three provisions in the spending bill, which is intended to avert a government shutdown." 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/18/rfk-stadium-dc-washington-commanders/