“The ship was leased by Maersk. Let Maersk pay for the bridge.”
Maersk is Danish...they don’t F up.
Maersk and the ship’s owners will be years in arguments over who between them is most responsible.
Maersk furnished the freight. Ship management, including technical stuff, was by Synergy, an Indian company. That’s why there was an all-Indian crew. Ownership is a Singapore company. Maersk might have the deepest pockets, yep, so they’ll be dragged in.
If you charter a semi to haul a load for you and that truck hits a bridge abutment and it collapses, are you responsible for the damages? My guess is that the driver and the owners of the trucking company would be responsible,