The owner of the ship that toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge appears to be seeking to cap the amount of damages that the company can be forced to pay following the deadly crash.
The Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd. indicated it will file a “limitation of liability” action in federal court Monday, invoking a little-known statute used in maritime law.
The filing itself is not yet available, but a docket in U.S. District Court in Maryland showed the company has initiated an action involving limitation of liability, a key move that maritime lawyers saidwould be likely to take place soon after the disaster.
You don’t even seem to understand the ownership structure of this ship. Maersk did not own, operate, crew, or maintain this vessel. It was chartered, which means that Maersk just paid for the cargo space and these other companies (grace ocean private and synergy marine) actually handled all of the potentially problematic aspects behind the incident (poor maintenance, crew factors, whatever it may be).
So not only are you claiming to be right before the dust has settled, but your initial statement was nonsense from the start.