The owner of the ship that toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge appears to be seeking to cap the amount of damages that the company can be forced to pay following the deadly crash.
The Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd. indicated it will file a “limitation of liability” action in federal court Monday, invoking a little-known statute used in maritime law.
The filing itself is not yet available, but a docket in U.S. District Court in Maryland showed the company has initiated an action involving limitation of liability, a key move that maritime lawyers saidwould be likely to take place soon after the disaster.
Of course! Socialize the losses, privatize the gains…
It’s the American Way!
It’s the American Singapore-based Way!
Our Gov. has for many years been so against the US Workers that they actively protect foreign business’ interests in their effort to appease the obscenely wealthy. So I have no doubt it shall still end up with the US Taxpayers footing the bill. I’ll wait to be shocked, but not that shocked, until a court rules that the City owes for damages to the ship.
OK, you’re right and I really hate that paradigm. But didn’t I hear something like these boats being led out of the bay are under the control of local crew (not company crew) until they get to open water? Also something about doing this without a tug escort? I wonder if there is more to this story other than yet another bad corporate actor.
The ship had 2 local harbor pilots (which are fairly mandatory worldwide as harbors are unique).
As far as no tug escort my guess is that’s to cut down on costs, either to the shipping companies and/or the harbor … and it’s up to the harbor if a tug is mandatory or not.
As far as no tug escort
From what I’ve watched it might not have been safer. This because tugs apparently only can operate such a vessel if it is going really slow. But when it is going slow the vessel is difficult to control. So there’s no easy better option.
I’m just repeating what I heard on a video from this channel: https://youtube.com/@wgowshipping
