2026年5月12日，美国东部时间上午10:30 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：霍姆斯·莱布兰德
更新于2026年5月12日，美国东部时间上午11:42
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2024年3月26日，“达利”号货船撞毁马里兰州巴尔的摩市弗朗西斯·斯科特·基大桥，这起事故发生两年后，美国司法部宣布对两家公司及该船的技术主管提起刑事指控。
官员们表示，此次事故造成6名公路工人死亡，切断了美国最大港口之一的交通往来，重建大桥的成本将高达数十亿美元。
总部位于新加坡的Synergy Marine Pte Ltd、总部位于印度金奈的Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd，以及现年47岁、同时为两家公司担任“达利”号货船技术主管的拉达克里希南·卡尔蒂克·奈尔，被指控犯有共谋罪、故意未立即向海岸警卫队通报已知危险状况、妨碍执法程序以及虚假陈述罪。
马里兰州联邦地区检察官凯利·O·海耶斯周二在巴尔的摩的新闻发布会上表示：“政府的调查还发现，Synergy公司的员工，包括其岸上技术管理人员，伪造并指使他人伪造与船舶系统相关的安全检查和认证文件。”她指出，调查人员认为印度籍的奈尔目前身处印度。
“我们将动用所有可用的执法工具”将其缉拿归案，海耶斯说道。
事故发生后，联邦调查局和美国海岸警卫队启动了刑事调查。多名非美国籍船员被要求留在国内配合调查。
去年12月，美国国家运输安全委员会发布了该事件的最终调查报告，结论是一根电线的标签滑过了绝缘层，导致该电线无法与断路器建立正常连接。
这一故障导致“达利”号货船在驶离巴尔的摩港时发生断电。报告称，尽管船员曾尝试“恢复因断电而失效的推进系统”，但未能成功，几分钟后，“达利”号便径直撞向了大桥。
去年11月，美国国家运输安全委员会主席珍妮弗·霍门迪表示，在“达利”号这样大小的船舶上找到松动的电线，就像在埃菲尔铁塔上找到一颗松动的螺栓一样困难。
美国国家运输安全委员会的报告还发现，马里兰州运输管理局从未对大桥存在的重大结构风险进行过评估。
根据起诉书，被告方涉嫌改装船舶，依靠一台冲洗泵为“达利”号四台发电机中的两台提供燃料。该冲洗泵并非为断电后自动重启而设计，而“达利”号的发电机在没有燃料供应的情况下无法运转，因此船舶最终发生了第二次断电，美国司法部表示。
司法部称，如果该船没有依赖冲洗泵提供燃料，电力本可以恢复，从而避免此次撞桥事故。
妨碍执法的指控源于奈尔向官员谎称自己不知道船舶在使用冲洗泵，根据起诉书内容。
联邦调查局巴尔的摩分局特别探员主管吉米·保罗表示，大桥被撞“是因为负责船舶运营的人员故意罔顾安全、偷工减料”。
“起诉书显示，Synergy公司和（奈尔）多次未能记录、调查和报告‘达利’号船上的重大安全风险和隐患，”保罗说道。“他们伪造安全检查和认证文件， falsely声称船舶处于良好运行状态，并在遭到调查时对自己的行为撒谎。”
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巴尔的摩市及其他方向针对该船船东和运营方的另一桩民事案件将于6月1日进行 bench trial（法官独审），涉事企业正试图限制其在此次事故中的赔偿责任。
Synergy公司周二代表两家公司发表声明称：“调查结束后，美国国家运输安全委员会认定，Synergy Marine及其船员并非导致‘达利’号与大桥相撞的可能或促成因素。相反，NTSB将事故的可能原因确定为信号电线连接松动导致断电，这是Synergy Marine无法控制的缺陷。”
“我们对马里兰州联邦地区检察官办公室以及司法部环境与自然资源司的检察官无视NTSB内资深海事专家明确且有充分记录的调查结果，以及多名海事专家的调查结果和证词深感失望，”该公司补充道，并表示此次指控公告的时机距离民事审判不到一个月，这“引发了严重质疑”。
美国司法部和马里兰州此前已与“达利”号的船东和运营方达成和解协议。
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Justice Department announces criminal charges in Baltimore’s deadly Key Bridge collapse
May 12, 2026, 10:30 AM ET / CNN
By Holmes Lybrand
Updated May 12, 2026, 11:42 AM ET
A view of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024.
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Two years after a container ship rammed into and collapsed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Justice Department has announced criminal charges against two companies and the ship’s technical superintendent.
The crash killed six highway workers and cut off traffic to one of the US’ largest shipping ports, officials said, adding it will cost billions to rebuild the bridge.
Synergy Marine Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, and Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd, based in Chennai, India, along with Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, 47, who worked for both companies as the technical superintendent for the “Dali,” are charged with conspiracy, willfully failing to immediately inform the Coast Guard of a known hazardous condition, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and false statements.
“The government’s investigation also found that Synergy employees, including its shore side technical managers, fabricated and directed the fabrication of safety inspections and certifications related to vessel systems,” US Attorney Kelly O. Hayes for the District of Maryland said at a press conference in Baltimore Tuesday. She said investigators believe Nair, who is an Indian national, is in India.
“We are going to enforce and use all our available law enforcement tools” to try and get him, Hayes said.
Following the crash, the FBI and US Coast Guard opened a criminal investigation. Several members of the crew, who were not US citizens, were told to remain in the country as the investigation continued.
In December of last year, the National Transportation Safety Board issued its final report on the incident, which concluded that a wire label had slid over a covering keeping that wire from establishing a proper connection with the circuit breaker.
This caused power outages on the ship, the Dali, as it was leaving the port of Baltimore. Despite the crew’s failed efforts to “recover propulsion from the loss of electrical power,” the report says, the Dali careened into the bridge minutes later.
In November, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said finding the loose wire in a ship the size of the Dali would be like finding a loose bolt in the Eiffel Tower.
The NTSB report also found the bridge had significant structural risk never evaluated by the Maryland Transportation Authority.
According to the indictment, the defendants allegedly altered the ship and relied on a flushing pump to supply fuel to two of the Dali’s four generators. The flushing pump was not designed to automatically restart following a blackout, and the Dali’s generators could not operate without a fuel supply, so the ship ultimately experienced a second blackout, the Justice Department says.
The Justice Department said that if the ship had not been relying on the flushing pump, power would have been restored, preventing the crash.
The obstruction charge stems from Nair telling officials he was unaware the ship was using the flushing pump, according to the indictment.
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Baltimore Field Office Jimmy Paul said the bridge was struck “because those who were responsible for the ship’s operation deliberately cut corners to the expense of safety.”
“The indictment shows that Synergy and (Nair) repeatedly failed to document, investigate and report significant safety risk and hazards aboard the Dali,” Paul said. “They forged safety inspections and certifications. They falsely claimed the ship was in good working order and then lied to investigators about their actions when there was question.”
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A bench trial is set for June 1 in a separate, civil case against the ship’s owner and operator by the city of Baltimore and others as the companies look to limit their liability in the crash.
“At the conclusion of their investigation, the NTSB determined that Synergy Marine and its crew were not among the probable or contributing causes of the DALI making contact with the bridge,” Synergy said in a statement Tuesday on behalf of both companies. “Instead, the NTSB identified the probable cause of the incident was a loss of electrical power due to a loose signal wire connection, a defect outside of Synergy Marine’s control.”
“We are deeply disappointed that the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland and prosecutors within the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice have ignored the clear and well-documented findings of the seasoned maritime professionals within the NTSB, as well as the documented findings and testimony of multiple maritime experts,” the company said, adding that the timing of the announcement coming less than a month before the civil trial raises “serious questions.”
The Justice Department and state of Maryland previously reached settlement agreements with the owners and operators of the Dali.
CNN’s Gabe Cohen contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with additional information.