At approximately 1.30 am local time on March 26, the Dali ship struck the 1.6-mile Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers.
The bridge plunged into the Patapsco River after the ship struck a support pillar.
In May, it was refloated and steered back to port after spending two months beneath the ruins. It eventually departed Baltimore in June.
In September, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, two Singaporean corporations, requesting $103 million.
In order for the waterway to reopen in June, the claim was meant to recover the funds that the US government spent on disaster relief and the removal of the Dali ship wreck and bridge debris from the Port of Baltimore.
Fifty thousand tonnes of debris had to be removed in order to reopen.
Throughout the operation, which involved 56 federal, state, and local agencies, over 1,500 individual responders and 500 foreign professionals operated a fleet of boats.
