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The Dali, which was beginning its 22-day journey to Sri Lanka after spending a couple of days in the port of Baltimore, one of the nation's busiest ports, was Singapore-flagged. It had been hired by the shipping container company myosc, one of the largest container traffickers on the world stage.
達利號懸掛新加坡國旗,在巴爾的摩港停留數(shù)日后,開始了為期 22 天的斯里蘭卡之旅。巴爾的摩港是美國最繁忙的港口之一。該船由集裝箱運輸公司 myosc 租用,該公司是世界上最大的集裝箱運輸商之一。
Today, they've issued a statement saying how horrified they are by this event. Absolutely no indication that it was intentional or in any way uh terror-related. This appears to have been some kind of catastrophic navigation error that the authorities are only now beginning to investigate. And a National Transportation Safety Board team will be dispatched from Washington D.C., just up the road to Baltimore, to begin and oversee the process of this investigation.
今天,他們發(fā)表聲明,表示對這一事件深感震驚。絕對沒有跡象表明這是故意的,或者與恐怖主義有關。這似乎是某種災難性的航行錯誤,當局現(xiàn)在才開始調查。美國國家運輸安全委員會的一個小組將從華盛頓特區(qū)派往巴爾的摩,開始并監(jiān)督調查過程。
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