A fuel barge has become the first vessel to use a temporary channel around the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge six days after the Port of Baltimore was closed.
The former CEO of Sembcorp Marine Wong Weng Sun and another senior executive of the Singapore yard group have been charged with paying over $31 million in bribes to win contracts in Brazil.
CMA CGM has declared Force Majeure on shipments to and from the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Bridge after it was hit by the containership Dali.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shared data from Dali’s Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) on the minutes prior to contact with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
In the aftermath of the bridge strike at Baltimore, Maryland, participants from all across the maritime spectrum have been weighing in regarding potential impacts on supply chains, and on US infrastructure matters generally.
The outfall of the fateful allision between the 9,971 TEU container ship, Dali, and Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26 could last ‘many years’ and test global shipping’s mutual insurance system to its limits...