General Motors and Ford Motor will reroute affected shipments, but the companies said the impact would be minimal.
Work crews had been repairing potholes
According to the Straits Times, During the June 2023 inspection, a faulty monitor gauge for fuel pressure was fixed before the vessel departed the port. However, rhe Singapore-flagged vessel that crashed into a bridge in Baltimore on March 26 had passed foreign port state inspections in June and September 2023.
In a statement on March 27, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said the Dali had been flagged with Singapore from October 2016, and is classed by classification society ClassNK. The paper adds, the two port pilots who were on board the Dali when it crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are locals from Baltimore, a Synergy Marine Group spokesman told The Straits Times on March 27.
Synergy, headquartered in Singapore, manages the Singapore-flagged container ship.
In a phone call, Mr Darrell Wilson said the two port pilots on board at the time of the accident are from Baltimore, and the 22 crew Indians .