Ship Owners Are Trying Everything To Avoid Paying Up For Baltimore Bridge Collapse

A massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, killing six people and shutting one of America’s busiest ports in the process. The company that operates the ship is now trying everything to get out of paying up for the mammoth task of extracting the stricken vessel and … Read more

At Least 424 Cargo Ships Lost Power In U.S. Waters Over The Last 3 Years

After the MV Dali brought down the Franklin Key Bridge in Baltimore, folks wondered how this could happen, and could it happen again? As if to answer this unspoken question, it almost immediately happened again: the APL Qingdao lost power near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor earlier this month. The Honda Passport Is … Read more

A Cargo Ship Lost Control Dangerously Close To A New York Bridge And Had To Be Baled Out By Tugboats

Less than two weeks after a massive cargo ship caused carnage when it hit a bridge in Baltimore, a second enormous vessel has come dangerously close to a bridge in New York after it lost “some of its” controls in the city’s harbor. The Ford Focus RS Is A Great Car For Getting To Work … Read more

The Baltimore bridge collapse and its impact on global trade

All 22 crew members, almost all from India, have remained aboard the vessel and have been questioned by a team of the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators have obtained the ship’s data recorder and so far ruled out foul play. 01:18 US bridge collapses in Baltimore after ship collision, leaving several people missing US bridge … Read more

Maersk tells its container ships to pause Red Sea voyages

Container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S instructed any ships heading for the southern entrance of the Red Sea to halt their voyages following an attack on one of its vessels and spiraling risks to the merchant fleet in the area posed by Houthi militants. “Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another … Read more