Almost 2 months after it destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge, the Dali cargo ship has been moved
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The crew have been stuck there ethe whole time?
And the FBI confiscated their cellphones and other methods of communication?
Why the fuck are poor foreign workers being treated like that when we're letting the company almost completely off the hook?
The FBI did seize their phones but the crew has received new phones from aid groups along with a Hotspot that was provided awhile ago.
The crew has been stuck on the ship because they are essential to the recovery process. The crew knows how to operate the ship and all of it's machinery. They've been responsible for keeping pumps on board the ship running and ensuring there's no flooding as the clean up goes on.
The real question is now that the ship is back at a berth and in a position where only a skeleton crew is needed why hasn't the US granted any emergency visas to the crew so they can start rotating shore leave?
What I heard on the news is that the crew received replacement phones with no SIM cards. So… thanks for nothing, friends?
Or do the crew have their own SIM cards or internet access on board?
Close. They didn't get their sim card back
And worse, their visas expired during all of this, as they were only to be in the us for a few days, so even when they get back to the dock, they’ll still be stuck on the ship for the foreseeable future.
It sucks that this crew was stuck for 2 months but that's a surprisingly short amount of time for a crew to be stuck in limbo. The crew often are expected to stay with the vessel until their contract ends and won't get paid if the vessel encounters a problem.
As others have said. This is basically normal procedure. There has to be someone to take care of the ship.
Finally. Was starting to think my wife's strap-on was never going to be delivered
The containers are all still on there... Someone will get their 2 months delayed order soon....
The ship was actually leaving Baltimore for somewhere in Asia so it'll be awhile.
A bunch of the containers on the bow were crushed by the bridge falling on it. Others were knocked into the bay. There's a good chunk of folks never getting their cargo back. At this point they may not even know who those customers are yet.