2024-03-26 12:40:00
The cargo ship “Dali”, which caused the collapse of a bridge on Tuesday in Baltimore in the United States, is a recent container ship flying the flag of Singapore. Shortly after it was launched, in 2016, the ship caused a first incident by hitting a quay in the port of Antwerp, in Belgium, according to the Vessel Finder and Shipwrecklog sites.
Built by the Korean Hyundai shipyard in 2015, it is 300 meters long, 48 meters wide, 24.8 meters high and 15 meters draft.
It is of average size for this type of ship (95,000 gross tons).
The ship left the port of Baltimore at 1 a.m. on Tuesday for a crossing of almost a month to the port of Colombo (Sri Lanka), according to the Marine Traffic website. It hit the bridge at 1:28 a.m. local time.
The ship belongs to the Hong Kong company Grace Ocean. Danish giant Maersk confirmed on Tuesday that it was transporting its customers’ goods.
The Singaporean company that operates the Dali, Synergy Marine, said it was being operated by two pilots at the time of the collision.
No member of the crew was injured and there was no pollution noted, Synergy stressed.
Twenty-two crew members were on board at the time of the accident, according to the Port of Singapore. Searches are currently being carried out to find people who have fallen into the water.
Accustomed to journeys between Asia and the East Coast of the United States, the “Dali” crossed the Panama Canal on March 13 before passing through the ports of New York, Norfolk and finally Baltimore.
Its tanks can hold up to 8,344 cubic meters of fuel oil, according to Marine Traffic. It is insured by the British company Britannia.
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