Sanctions leveled previously against company chartering Dali [Video]

BALTIMORE — Federal regulators last year sanctioned the company that chartered the Dali, which crashed into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Tuesday, for firing a whistleblower who had reported safety problems on one of the company’s vessels to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Maersk Line Limited bills itself as the largest owner and operator of U.S. flag vessels operating internationally. While the company didn’t own or build the Dali, a 948-foot cargo vessel, it chartered the ship for a client on the now infamous voyage. 

Maersk Line is now finding itself in the spotlight after one of the cargo container ships it chartered, the Dali, lost power and crashed into the Key Bridge in a terrifying and deadly incident caught on multiple camera angles. 

Six people are …