The now-notorious container ship at the centre of the Baltimore bridge disaster was involved in a previous collision in Antwerp eight years earlier.
The 9,962-teu Dali (built 2015) destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday morning, plunging up to 20 people into the water.
In 2016, the vessel allided with a berth at the Belgian port during unmooring, a Vessel Finder report said.
The accident happened in good weather and was caused by master and pilot error, the report added.
The vessel had a large amount of stern momentum, causing it to hit the stone wall of the quayside.
The Dali suffered damage to the stern and transom. It remained afloat but needed repairs to hull breaches near the waterline.
The berth was reported to be seriously damaged. No injuries were reported on the ship or ashore.
The boxship was under the control of Oceanbulk Container Management of Greece at the time.
It is now owned by Grace Ocean in Singapore.
The vessel was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The Dali was chartered by Maersk at the time, as it is now.
Current manager Synergy Marine told TradeWinds the 2016 accident happened before it took over technical management.
There are no port state control detentions on the Dali’s record.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said in a statement on Wednesday that the Dali’s required classification society and statutory certificates covering the structural integrity of the vessel and functionality of the vessel’s equipment were valid at the time of the incident.
The MPA also noted that the vessel underwent and passed two separate foreign port state inspections in June and September 2023. In the June 2023 inspection, a faulty monitor gauge for fuel pressure was rectified before the vessel departed the port.
The Dali’s next classification and statutory surveys are due in June 2024.
