The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard — in violation of a seaman whistleblower protection law, according to regulatory filings reviewed by The Lever.
Eight months before a Maersk Line Limited-chartered cargo ship crashed into the Baltimore bridge, likely killing six people and injuring others, the Labor Department sanctioned the shipping conglomerate for retaliating against an employee who reported unsafe working conditions aboard a Maersk-operated boat. In its order, the department found that Maersk had “a policy that requires employees to first report their concerns to [Maersk]… prior to reporting it to the [Coast Guard] or other authorities.”
And racists were posting bile against the Indian/Sri Lankan crew on the ship.
As if they were responsible for disaster and not the greedy rich pricks.
as long as the republican party is a force in politics, these companies will continue to get away with this shit.
Oh boy. Now the shit storm begins, Randy. Its gonna be shit all the way down.
You hear that boy, the shit winds are a blowin.
Ah I see they made the newbie mistake of not assassinating the whistleblower like Boeing.
Man everyone should watch that West Wing episode that was almost exactly about this: corporate lawyers for cargo ships minimum liability.
Fat lot of good that did obviously
Well, in theory now in court there is more evidence of a pattern of behavior that can be used to justify harsher penalties.
In theory…
A Singaporean company owns the ship, from what I’ve read, Maersk just “rented” the ship for this cargo load, how does this in any way make it Maersk’s fault? This is a genuine question because from what I’ve read, Maersk would have zero to do with the upkeep or maintenence of the ship, the owners would be responsible for that, especially if they had Just chartered this ship for this most recent load.
This will somehow be used as further evidence by conspiracy minded people that this was intentionally done by the government even though it is directly contradictory to that
Weren’t these the same incompetent cunts who tried drifting down the Suez Canal sideways?
Nope, that was the ship Ever Given from the company Evergreen, this accident is with a ship from Maersk.
Don’t worry guys,
Biden said he’s going to fix it with taxpayer money instead of holding the multi billion dollar global corporation accountable.
