Washington: Eight Indian crew members of the cargo ship 'Dali', which capsized on the famous Baltimore bridge in March, left for India on Friday after spending nearly three months on the giant ship.
Four of the 21 crew members are still aboard the 984-foot cargo ship MV Dali, which is temporarily scheduled to depart Friday evening for Norfolk, Virginia, according to the Baltimore Maritime Exchange.
The remaining crew has been moved to a serviced apartment in Baltimore and will remain there pending an investigation.
Notably, 20 crew members were Indian citizens. They were aboard the MV Dali Cargo, which collided with the pillars of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, resulting in its collapse, killing six construction workers in the tragic incident.
The cast will be repaired in Norfolk.
The departure of eight Indian crew members, including a cook, a fitter and a sailor, followed a deal approved by the judge. None of them are officers. The remaining 13 people will remain mainly in the US due to pending investigations.
“They are worried, quite stressed thinking they don't know the future. They don't know when they'll see their families again or how they'll be treated here,” the Rev. Joshua Messick, director of the Baltimore International Seafarers Center and chaplain of the Port of Baltimore, told CNN.
No crew members have been charged in connection with the disaster. The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating.
The 2.6 km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore collapsed on March 26 after colliding with a branch.
The ship is owned by Grace Ocean Pvt Ltd and was sailing from Baltimore to Colombo and has a capacity of 10,000 TEU, with a total of 4,679 TEU units onboard. The deadweight of the ship is 116,851 DWT.
Four of the 21 crew members are still aboard the 984-foot cargo ship MV Dali, which is temporarily scheduled to depart Friday evening for Norfolk, Virginia, according to the Baltimore Maritime Exchange.
The remaining crew has been moved to a serviced apartment in Baltimore and will remain there pending an investigation.
Notably, 20 crew members were Indian citizens. They were aboard the MV Dali Cargo, which collided with the pillars of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, resulting in its collapse, killing six construction workers in the tragic incident.
The cast will be repaired in Norfolk.
The departure of eight Indian crew members, including a cook, a fitter and a sailor, followed a deal approved by the judge. None of them are officers. The remaining 13 people will remain mainly in the US due to pending investigations.
“They are worried, quite stressed thinking they don't know the future. They don't know when they'll see their families again or how they'll be treated here,” the Rev. Joshua Messick, director of the Baltimore International Seafarers Center and chaplain of the Port of Baltimore, told CNN.
No crew members have been charged in connection with the disaster. The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating.
The 2.6 km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore collapsed on March 26 after colliding with a branch.
The ship is owned by Grace Ocean Pvt Ltd and was sailing from Baltimore to Colombo and has a capacity of 10,000 TEU, with a total of 4,679 TEU units onboard. The deadweight of the ship is 116,851 DWT.
