BALTIMORE — Federal representatives on Saturday boarded a vessel handled by the exactsame business as a freight ship that triggered the lethal Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI verified.
In declarations, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland validated that authorities boarded the Maersk Saltoro. The ship is handled by Synergy Marine Group.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division and Coast Guard Investigative Services are present aboard the Maersk Saltoro carryingout court licensed law enforcement activity,” declarations from both the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office stated Saturday earlymorning.
Authorities did not deal more specifics. The Washington Post veryfirst reported on federal authorities boarding the ship.
The raid came numerous months after detectives performed a comparable search of the Dali, the freight ship that crashed into the bridge.
In a suit submitted Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department declared that Dali owner Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and supervisor Synergy Marine, both of Singapore, recklessly cut corners and neglected understood electrical issues on the vessel, which lost power numerous times minutes before it crashed into a assistance column on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.
The Justice Department stated mechanical and electrical systems on the huge ship hadactually been “jury-rigged” and poorly preserved, culminating in the power blackouts and a waterfall of other failures that left its pilots and team defenseless in the face of looming catastrophe. The ship was leaving Baltimore for Sri Lanka when its guiding stoppedworking duetothefactthat of the power loss.
Six members of a roadway work team were eliminated when the bridge collapsed into the water. The collapse likewise snarled industrial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore for months before the channel was totally resumed in June.
The Justice Department is lookingfor to recuperate more than $100 million the federalgovernment invested to clear the undersea particles and resume the city’s port.
The business submitted a court petition days after the collapse lookingfor to l