{"id":15789,"date":"2024-03-28T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/cargo-that-caused-baltimore-bridge-collapse-involved-in-2016-belgium-accident\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T07:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T02:16:19","slug":"cargo-that-caused-baltimore-bridge-collapse-involved-in-2016-belgium-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/cargo-that-caused-baltimore-bridge-collapse-involved-in-2016-belgium-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo That Caused Baltimore Bridge Collapse Involved in 2016 Belgium Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The cargo ship that ran into Baltimore\u2019s Francis Scott Key Bridge was also involved in an accident in Belgium in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Antwerp port authorities said the container ship Dali hit a quay on July 11, 2016, as it tried to exit the North Sea container terminal,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/ship-that-hit-baltimore-bridge-also-involved-2016-antwerp-accident-2024-03-26\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe port authority could give no details about the cause of the accident, but said the ship had remained at the dock for repairs for some time after the incident,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The vessel responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse was implicated in other accidents. In 2016, it collided with the dock at the container terminal in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is said to have been caused by a mistake made by the Master and pilot on board\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdXyBDEyQP\">pic.twitter.com\/KdXyBDEyQP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I Meme Therefore I Am \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ImMeme0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/1772656260325708098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to the report, the incident was said to have been caused by a mistake made by the Master and pilot on board at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Data published on Equasis, a public database for the shipping industry, revealed a 2016 inspection of the vessel conducted in Antwerp found it had a structural issue, which was stated as \u201chull damage impairing its seaworthiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The port authorities said the ship had remained at the dock for repairs for some time after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a general rule, these accidents are investigated and ships are only allowed to leave after experts have determined it is safe for them to do so,\u201d a spokesperson for Antwerp port\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/cargo-that-caused-baltimore-bridge-collapse-involved-in-2016-belgium-accident\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cargo ship that ran into Baltimore\u2019s Francis Scott Key Bridge was also involved in an accident in Belgium in 2016. \u201cThe Antwerp port authorities said the container ship Dali hit a quay on July 11, 2016, as it tried to exit the North Sea container terminal,\u201d Reuters reported. \u201cThe port authority could give no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}