Friday 25 October 2024 · below the Index · spike
Baltimore bridge collapse settlement agreed
The owner of the cargo ship Dali, which struck the Baltimore bridge in March 2024, agreed to pay $102 million to the US government in settlement.
Peak 55.9 on Friday 25 October 2024. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Media-led, both over the window and on the peak day.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 46% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Monday 14 October 2024.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Readers here means readers of the Wikipedia article on each vessel type — the same source as the Research signal, not news coverage — so an incident can dominate the news without moving this panel. Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: safety failure. Trade press was 0% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 0% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor.
How the coverage sounded
Coverage ran 99% negative overall; 34% strongly so.
Each article is scored on a five-step scale from strongly negative to strongly positive; the bar is the share of coverage at each step.
Sample of the headlines
- Shipping firms to pay $102m settlement for Baltimore Bridge cleanupaljazeera.com · 2024-10-25
- Ship owner agrees to pay $102m over Baltimore bridge collapse that killed sixtheguardian.com · 2024-10-24
- Shipping firms to pay $102M over Baltimore bridge collapse – DW – 10/25/2024dw.com · 2024-10-25
- Cargo-ship owner to pay $134 million over Baltimore bridge collapsestraitstimes.com · 2024-10-25
- Baltimore Key Bridge collapse: Owner of Dali cargo ship to pay US $100M in settlementfox32chicago.com · 2024-10-24
- Settlement reached with ship owner in Baltimore bridge collapsethv11.com · 2024-10-24
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title.
- Registered in a single underlying series only — one vessel-type article, news term or social query — and never moved the Index itself.
- The coverage panels count only articles matched to this incident specifically.
Maritime Attention Index, incident: Baltimore bridge collapse settlement agreed, peak 55.9 on 25 October 2024. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2024-baltimore-bridge-collapse-settlement-agreed/