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The crew of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan of the container vessel that collided with a key Baltimore bridge last week is "busy with their normal duties" and will remain on board until the investigation into the accident is completed...
The crew members are busy with their normal duties on the ship as well as assisting the National Transportation Safety Board and Coast Guard investigators on board," a spokesperson of Grace Ocean Pte and Synergy Marine told PTI...
The crew is on board the container vessel Dali that collided with the 2.6-km-long four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore in the early hours of March 26..
Earlier, the non-profit organisation Baltimore International Seafarers' Center had said that the Indian crew on board the container vessel was "healthy"...
US President Joe Biden said that the crew on board Dali had alerted transportation personnel about losing control of the vessel, enabling authorities to close the Baltimore bridge to traffic before the devastating collision, "undoubtedly" saving lives..
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26, Mar, 24The cargo ship Dali collided with a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse into the river. All 22 crew members onboard are Indian, according to the ship's management company, Synergy Marine Group. The vessel, owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd and bound from Baltimore to Colombo, had a capacity of 10,000 TEU and was carrying 4,679 TEU.