A few grabs from an ABC article about the shipping company involved in the bridge disaster.
The Dali, a 300-metre container ship which accidentally destroyed a bridge, causing the presumed deaths of six people and blocking a major US trade route, is owned via a secretive tax haven company in the British Virgin Islands called Grace Ocean Investment Limited.
Another ship that belonged to the company was slapped with a six-month ban in 2021 for what the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said were "serious and shameful breaches" of maritime labour laws.
The operator of the Western Callao was forced to hand over about $40,000 in unpaid wages to 13 seafarers."
AMSA detained the same ship at Port Kembla in New South Wales in July 2020, finding the operator had unlawfully kept eight seafarers on board for more than 11 months.
Another of the company's ships, the Furness Southern Cross, had also unlawfully kept 10 seafarers on board for more than 14 months."
"Tax havens and worker exploitation: Baltimore bridge disaster gives glimpse into 'murky world' of shipping"
- "In short: A shipping company at the centre of the Baltimore disaster had another vessel banned from Australian ports in 2021 for worker exploitation.
- The Australian Maritime Safety Regulator found the ship's operator had unlawfully underpaid workers and kept them on board too long.
- The Dali is owned by a company in secretive tax haven, the British Virgin Islands."
The Dali, a 300-metre container ship which accidentally destroyed a bridge, causing the presumed deaths of six people and blocking a major US trade route, is owned via a secretive tax haven company in the British Virgin Islands called Grace Ocean Investment Limited.
Another ship that belonged to the company was slapped with a six-month ban in 2021 for what the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said were "serious and shameful breaches" of maritime labour laws.
The operator of the Western Callao was forced to hand over about $40,000 in unpaid wages to 13 seafarers."
AMSA detained the same ship at Port Kembla in New South Wales in July 2020, finding the operator had unlawfully kept eight seafarers on board for more than 11 months.
Another of the company's ships, the Furness Southern Cross, had also unlawfully kept 10 seafarers on board for more than 14 months."
Tax havens and worker exploitation behind shipping company in Baltimore disaster
The chequered record of the ship's owner in the Baltimore bridge tragedy offers a glimpse of the "murky world" of tax havens and worker exploitation in global shipping.
www.abc.net.au