Grace Ocean the Singapore-based owners of the Maersk chartered Dali, which ran into Baltimore’s Francis Key Bridge killing six workers and demolishing the crossing, declared general average on Saturday.
The Red Sea crisis with the Houthis in Yemen attacking commercial shipping transiting the region has been one of the biggest stories in shipping over the last six months.
The situation in Baltimore after the horrible late-March allision by the container ship Dali that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge there are many pieces to a puzzle that will take years to sort out.
In the wake of the Baltimore bridge tragedy Michael Grey explores stricter tug requirements, machinery testing, and the causes of shipboard power outages.
A vessel master and shipowner Fu Ye Shipping have been convicted by the Australian courts for an accident that led to serious injuries to a ship pilot.
The first seafarer deaths in the Red Sea crisis, a containership destroys bridge in the Port of Baltimore and the debut trial of ammonia as a marine fuel, and much more in the latest Maritime in Minutes.