(Baltimore/Washington/Singapore Comprehensive) The six people who lost contact in the main bridge collapse of Balt Morrum in Maryland, USA, have already confined that they were killed. President Biden said that it was a terrible accident.
In the early morning of Tuesday (March 26) local time, the container ship "DALI" hanging from the Singaporean flag lost power and hit the Moforant Scott Bridge in Barr, causing the bridge to collapse. Six night construction team membersThe whereabouts are unknown.The United States Coast Guard said that night that the seawater was cold and the accident had exceeded 18 hours, the hope of finding the survivors was slim, so it decided to suspend the search and rescue operation.
The State Police of Maryland said that the rescue ship will continue to patrol at night, and the official hopes that the diver will be launched again the next morning to salvage the body of the victims.
DALI's management company SynergyMarine said on Wednesday (27th) that 22 crew members and two leaders were all safe, one was injured, and was discharged after receiving treatment.The company had previously said that the crew was Indian.In addition, according to the Maryland Pilot Association, all foreign ships must be equipped with two local aircraft guides when entering and leaving the state port to guide the ships to enter and exit safely.
FBI declaration has nothing to do with terrorism
After the incident, the social media platform once had conspiracy theories that accidents were done by terrorists.The FBI (FBI) and other institutions later stated that this was an accident and had nothing to do with terrorism; there was no structural problem in the bridge itself, which fully complied with regulations.
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Whether the shipowner who was asked about the DALI should bear responsibility, Biden said, "It is possible, but we can't wait. We will reconstruct the bridge and make it open again."
The bridge accident caused the bridge to break and the port transportation was interrupted, and the shipowner Grace Ocean may face hundreds of millions of dollars in claims.However, legal experts said that according to a law in 1851, the maximum limit of the shipowner's compensation is the value of the ship after the crash, and the income of the cargo can be reduced to tens of millions of dollars; the insurance of the shipowner's insuranceThe company can also share the pressure of compensation.
Experts said that during the claim, the Maryland Transport Administration may detain the DALI number until the compensation problem is resolved.
The Investigation Team of the National Transport Safety Commission has found a data recorder on the ship, and will follow the analysis to find out whether there is any unclean fuel behind the ship loss of the ship.
The accident may cause the regional coal export to interrupt six weeks
Balt's Motor Port's foreign cargo throughput and value scale ranked ninth in the United States. It is also the second largest terminal of the US coal export. The accident may cause regional coal exports to interrupted up to six weeks and up to 2.5 million tons of coal transportation.Essence
Balt's Motor Port is also the port with the most cargo in the United States and light trucks in the United States. Many well -known car companies have factories nearby.Ford is considering transferring some of the goods to other ports on the east coast of the United States, but the company is not affected.
The Minister of Transport Battygig said that the interruption of port traffic will have a long -term serious impact on the supply chain.However, analysts said that the competitive east coast port has sufficient and growing spare production capacity, and Baltimore's port shipping transportation has been suspended. It is expected that the new major supply chain crisis will be caused in the United States, and it will not push high commodity prices.
