Container Ship Lacked Backup System To Avoid Baltimore Bridge Strike
Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the container ship Dali lacked a backup power system to avoid the Baltimore Bridge strike. The nation’s top transportation safety investigator informed Congress that cargo ships lack the backup power necessary to prevent incidents like the one that occurred in March when the […]
Cargo Ship Hit With 2 Blackouts Before Ramming Into Baltimore Bridge
According to the NTSB investigation, on March 25, the cargo ship Dali was hit with two blackouts during maintenance before ramming into the Baltimore Bridge. A preliminary assessment from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was issued on Tuesday. It states that the shipping vessel that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March […]
Pentagon’s Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Trapped In Baltimore After Bridge Collapse
According to the shipping blog gCaptain, using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data that tracks commercial vessels, the Pentagon’s Rapid Wartime Response cargo ships are trapped in Baltimore after the bridge collapse. The 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning, trapping two fast-moving military cargo ships in the Port of Baltimore. For several days, […]
Cargo Ship That Hit Baltimore Bridge Was Also Involved In Antwerp Collision In 2016
According to data from Vessel Finder and the maritime incident archive Shipwrecklog, the cargo ship that collided with the Baltimore bridge, named the Dali, was also involved in a collision in Antwerp in 2016. The same ship that struck and destroyed the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday also collided with another vessel in […]