The Dali was lower than half-hour into its deliberate 27-day journey when the ship bumped into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday.
The ship, which was crusing below the Singaporean flag, was on its technique to Sri Lanka and was imagined to arrive there on April 22, in accordance with VesselFinder, a ship monitoring web site.
The Dali, which is almost 1,000 ft lengthy, left the Baltimore port round 1 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday. The ship had two pilots onboard, in accordance with an announcement by its house owners, Grace Ocean Investment. It’s unclear what number of crew members have been onboard, however everybody has been accounted for, in accordance with the corporate.
Before heading off on its voyage, the Dali had returned to the United States from Panama on March 19, harboring in New York. It then arrived on Saturday in Baltimore, the place it spent two days within the port.
The Dali was inbuilt 2015 by the South Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries. The following 12 months, the ship was concerned in a minor incident when it hit a stone wall on the port of Antwerp. The Dali sustained harm on the time, however nobody was injured.