The Justice Department filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the owner of the massive cargo ship that rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March.
DOJ attorneys said in a civil claim filed against Grace Ocean Private Limited in the U.S. District of Maryland that they were seeking more than $100 million in damages to cover costs the federal government incurred responding to the catastrophic event.
Grace Ocean’s ship, called the Dali, plowed into the bridge on March 26 after losing power, causing the bridge’s partial collapse. The wreck resulted in the death of six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time of the incident.
“This tragedy was entirely avoidable,” the attorneys wrote in the civil claim.