The owner of the container ship Dali has initiated a process requiring owners of the cargo on board to share salvage costs after the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    The ship’s owner, Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd., made what’s known in maritime law as a “general average” declaration, which allows a third-party adjuster to determine what each stakeholder should contribute, according to company spokesperson Darrell Wilson…

    A routine practice dating back centuries, the general average declaration marks the ship owner’s latest effort to minimize its financial responsibility in what could become one of the most expensive maritime disasters in history.

    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
      231·
      3 months ago

      I’d say fuck that. You were shipping my container, I’m not telling you how to do your job and I am most certainly not paying for your damages.

      This is 100% on the captain and the shipping company.

      • baru@lemmy.world
        191·
        3 months ago

        You were shipping my container

        I really doubt you dealt with container shipping. Loads of things are utterly weird at first thanks to maritime law. For loads of things it’s basically: “hope you got/arranged insurance!”

      • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
        151·
        3 months ago

        Not sure why you’re placing blame on the captain for an engine failure. Not much you can do in a boat without power. I definitely would put blame on the repairs and potentially the shipping company for not doing pm’s.

        Last I read there was still a lot of investigation to be done to see what lead to the failure.

        I think this incident really should be a wake up call to how fragile our infrastructure is and how it needs more funding and more protection

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        Maritime law is weird, with all sorts of shared risk and salvage stuff. Could be that it doesn’t matter. I literally have no idea.

        Seems like the declaration would not be unexpected, though.

    • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
      7·
      3 months ago

      Having had to deal with this, my understanding is that only the cargo loss is split among those shipping - as in, if a container goes over. I feel like this is just a trumpian attempt to overstate the law to cheat.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 months ago

    These guys seem like colossal pieces of shit.
    They also tried to use some archaic law to cap their financial responsibility at something stupid low, I think it was in the tens of millions, and that amount wouldn’t even cover the cleanup.