News / Baltimore update: the blame game begins as salvage gets under way

Photo: US Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor Bacon

As salvors begin their work in earnest, Singapore-based Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine, owner and manager respectively of the 10,000 teu Dali, are denying responsibility for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

The bridge collapsed last Tuesday after being struck by the 2015-built containership as it was departing Baltimore’s Seagirt terminal.

In a petition to the US district courts of Maryland yesterday, the companies, represented by law firms Duane Morris and Blank Rome, respectively, said: “The casualty was not ...