Dali arrives in China for repairs

This year’s most infamous ship, the Dali containership, has completed its voyage from the US and China and is now at one of the top repair yards in Asia.

The ship, which took out Baltimore’s largest bridge in March, arrived at Fujian Huadong Shipyard yesterday where it will undergo significant repairs. It had left the US on September 19. 

Legal cases surrounding this year’s most high-profile shipping accident are expected to run for many years costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in May released a preliminary report into the Dali’s fatal allision with Baltimore’s largest bridge.

The vessel, on charter to Maersk, experienced electrical blackouts about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and again shortly before it slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26 with the thousands of tons of the fallen bridge then wedging themselves onto the vessel’s prow.