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The Dali, responsible for last year’s most high-profile shipping accident, is back trading again.
Fujian Huadong Shipyard in China managed to complete repairs to the vessel 10 days ahead of schedule with the boxship leaving the yard for onward trading on Sunday,
The ship, which took out Baltimore’s largest bridge in March last year, arrived at Huadong Shipyard in November.
Legal cases surrounding the 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.
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