DOJ reaches $100 million settlement with ship owner in Baltimore bridge collapse
WASHINGTON - The owner of the Dali container ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year, collapsing the span and killing six people, has agreed to pay more than $100 million in damages to resolve a Justice Department lawsuit, authorities said Thursday. The Justice Department announced the settlement agreement in a news release, saying that the ship’s owner, Grace Ocean Private Limited, and operator, Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., would pay $103 million in funds that would go to federal agencies affected by the collapse. Others, including the state of Maryland, are pursuing separate damages, the department said. “This is a tremendous outcome that fully compensates the United States for the costs it incurred in responding to this disaster and holds the owner and operator of the DALI accountable,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in a statement. “The prompt resolution of this matter also avoids the expense…
24 Oct 00:00 · Inlandnewstoday