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DOJ lawyers said in a civil claim filed against Grace Ocean Private Limited in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland that they were seeking more than $100 million in damages to cover costs the federal government incurred responding to the catastrophic event., plowed into the bridge on March 26 after losing power, causing the bridge’s partial collapse. The wreck resulted in the death of six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time of the incident.
Government workers removed “more than 50,000 tons of steel, concrete and asphalt from the channel and from the Dali itself. While these efforts were underway, temporary channels were also cleared to start relieving the bottleneck at the Port of Baltimore and mitigating some of the economic devastation caused by the Dali,” Mizer said. “The work was complex, costly, time consuming, and, at times, dangerous.
DOJ lawyers detailed in the lawsuit the ship owner’s failures to maintain electrical and mechanical parts of the vessel properly that they say led to its power loss on the night of the incident. Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine “sent an ill-prepared crew on an abjectly unseaworthy vessel to navigate the United States’ waterways,” the lawyers wrote. “They did so to reap the benefit of conducting business in American ports. Yet they cut corners in ways that risked lives and infrastructure.”The DOJ’s lawsuit will also seek an unspecified amount in punitive damages.
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