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 underneath the Singaporean flag, was on its option to Sri Lanka and was purported to arrive there on April 22, in response to VesselFinder, a ship monitoring web site.
The Dali, which is sort of 1,000 ft lengthy, left the Baltimore port round 1 a.m. Jap on Tuesday. The ship had two pilots onboard, in response to an announcement by its homeowners, Grace Ocean Funding. It’s unclear what number of crew members have been onboard, however everybody has been accounted for, in response to the corporate.
Earlier than heading off on its voyage, the Dali had returned to america 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 in-built 2015 by the South Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries. The next yr, 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.