Dali owners using historic maritime law in attempt to offset salvage costs in Key Bridge collapse 

How unusual no one wants to take responsibility for their actions

That's kind of like Amazon making all the people that have to have a package in that truck that crashed pay for the wreck a big n o

They need to pay for the whole thing that's why you have insurance that ship has a history of breakdowns and lack of maintenance no we should not pay for this

The Dali needs to accept responsibility. The Dali ran into a bridge. Pay up!

This rule does not apply here. Dali was no correct maintained and cause this accident. No way they can use this rule - there was no storm or anything else.

And you can thank the glacial speed of maritime law for this

Digging up some ancient law to avoid responsibility.

I said a while back the only people who are going to win in this situation are the lawyers and perhaps the politicians

imaging the post office asking you to help pay for the mail truck going off the road because you mailed a letter.

This cost will all be passed down to the CONSUMER.

They'll invoke anything to keep from paying. I wonder what they invoked to keep the ship in disrepair and an accident waiting to happen?

It figures doesn’t(?): it will take years before Baltimore will ever be the same as well as commuters and affected business owners who will have to adapt to the extreme inconvenience without the bridge. One would think the Singapore cargo vessel insurance would be prepared for the financial scale of this disaster.

What they dont have Insurance to cover them .They shouldn't even be able to pick up a load if they dont have Insurance

The owners of the Dali and their Insurance Company need to foot the whole cost for the many losses. They, not we taxpayers nor the cargo owners, are responsible.

Does not matter who pays. The working class and consumers always pay in the end. The big boys make the laws and run the systems. Fact for thousands of years. Slavery never ended since it started.

Get your checkbooks ready boys.

The Dali is part of the salvage operation.... that includes the cargo. I believe it can be kept as security until damage costs are paid. The damage, though, may well exceed the value of the ship and the cargo....

Hey why not. They are using a 150 year old law in Arizona. Welcome to America. Where common sense is out the window.

But, who's paying for the bridge re-construction?? Should be the DALI!!!

How about maritime laws that require back-up for emergency loss of power and control of the ship? So, by this reasoning, if I have something delivered by FedEx and the truck is in an accident, I am expected to bear some of the cost of repairing the damage?

We want to limit our payout but there is no problem charging astronomical fees for moving cargo. You broke it you bought it. There should also be criminal charges for the lives you lost.

Bottom line the Dali should be responsible and liable. They knew there's previous electrical issues but yet they still used that cargo ship.

The ship owners should be facing prison time six counts of manslaughter

Very smart to be out of pay responsibility cost.

The ship belongs to a company. Another company distributes the freight. Another company provides the team. The containers belong to someone else, but the freight belongs to someone else too.

But they are responsible for this disaster and captain should be in prison

did the owners of the cargo shut off the power? If not, I can't see how they could be liable.

As a group the cost is lower for each, let the billable hours flow!

Oh wow, pass the costs on to people that are victims and had nothing to do with what happened. I mean, wouldn't that be like a truck driver causing a fatal wreck on a highway, and the people that hired him to haul a trailer of cargo, having the share in the damages? That doesn't seem right at all.

Oh yeah, why don't you just charge the people that ordered the crap in them containers. Pay. Get out. Don't come back!

Did he serve with General Mills?

The bridge had improper protection and should take most of the blame

Easy, hold their ships in port until they pay up! Its not taxpayers responsibility

Maryland built a bridge that was a huge mousetrap. MV DALI OOPSIE

Employ the squeegee kids to help fix the bridge.

Rules and laws ruined this place, What happened to America? Its all just a horse and pony show now.

Have Baltimore paid for the whole thing...Tugs should have been mandatory for for large ships entering/leaving port.

Cargo owners? That means the price is handed down to the end users. Why should this be made to be our fault?

You know chinas not going to pay .

damn, Tara is preety good lookin

Never should a bridge been built in the first place. NOW, it should not be rebuilt. They need to build a tunnel. If they had done this in the beginning we would not have this battle or mess let alone deaths. I would hope the people of Baltimore insist on a tunnel for replacement for safety reasons. They had the technology in the 70's to bore out the tunnel under the river. They have built tunnels under the oceans many times, Atlantic, so ships could enter or exit SAFELY, UK to EU for cars, trucks and trains. it was a moronic decision to build that bridge.