How to promote a positive work culture
Oceanbulk Maritime S A continuously promotes a positive work culture for its employees. Because of this, the company has initiated an employee recognition program. Also, the company focuses on diversity and inclusivity. Oceanbulk Maritime S A gives respect to their employees, and they encourage their employees to respect their colleagues. The company has zero-tolerance policies against harassment, abuse and discrimination. Positive culture plays an important role in the success of any organization (Heinz, 2021).
Four Types of Organizational Culture
Clan Culture
Oceanbulk Maritime S A prioritizes communication with its employees, and the company also tries building a culture where all employees will feel like family. But as Oceanbulk Maritime S A is a big company, it's difficult for them to focus on maintaining clan culture. However, clan culture will help companies promote employee engagement (Heinz, 2022).
Adhocracy Culture
Oceanbulk Maritime S A is a big company, and they offer multiple products. The company focuses on innovation and appreciates employees innovating and developing new ideas. Also, they are risk takers as they have realized that the competition in the market is tough and to stand out, they should focus on innovation. Oceanbulk Maritime S A follows an adhocracy culture. This type of culture helps the company to generate profits, and also it keeps their employees motivated (Heinz, 2022).
Market Culture
Oceanbulk Maritime S A doesn't appreciate such a culture, as in this type of culture, the focus is just on profitability. This type of culture creates a barrier between the employee and the leaders (Heinz, 2022).
Hierarchy Culture
Oceanbulk Maritime S A discourages this type of culture. As in a hierarchy culture, the company has to be rigid in terms of rules, and this type of culture doesn't encourage the employee to give feedback (Heinz, 2022). Oceanbulk Maritime S A has a very flexible culture, which focuses on communication within the organization. Also, the company encourages creativity.
Hofstede's Model of Organizational Culture
Power Distance
Oceanbulk Maritime S A focuses on reducing power distance. The company encourages communication, and they believe in an open-door policy. Any employee can directly reach out to the higher manager if they have any issues or if they have a new idea. Oceanbulk Maritime S A tries to build a culture where employees respect their colleagues. Power distance is when the less powerful employees feel that they don't have equal powers as compared to people in the higher post (Hofstede, 2011).
Masculinity Vs. Femineity
Oceanbulk Maritime S A operates in multiple countries; some countries are masculine, and some are not (Hofstede, 2011). But Oceanbulk Maritime S A discourages such a model, and they focus on promoting femineity in the organization. To adopt femineity in the organizational culture, the company gives training to their employees and encourages women in leadership positions.
Dali is owned by Oceanbulk Containers. Oceanbulk Containers is a joint venture between Oceanbulk Maritime S.A. and Oaktree Capital Management L.P., established in 2013.
Seems to be a discrepancy between what you've got and what I'm reading elsewhere. According to other reports, the ship is operated by the Singapore-based Synergy Marine Group.
Thrilled to see the buzz around the Diversity@Sea project, aiming for more inclusive seafaring. 🚢🌍
We're committed to gender parity in the industry and proud to contribute to this crucial initiative.
“Those involved are not simply putting more women on board than presently usual and then just jotting down a few reminders. They have all embarked on a detailed process that, in repeating cycle, will find, act on and review information as part of a continuum of adjusting all aspects of onboard life, so that one day all women seafarers are as content as they are unremarked, and the industry can genuinely claim gender parity.
We are still a long way off, but we will get there if we follow the signs.
The Synergy Marine Group is highly delighted, wholly enthusiastic and very proud in being one of the participants in this initiative. Now, in the second half of Women's History Month, there is a strong sense of making, as well as celebrating, history.
Either way, it's been pointed out elsewhere in the thread that the ship was still in the boundaries of the harbor, so would have had a local pilot from the Baltimore docks behind the wheel. Being that Baltimore is something like 90% "diverse", pretty high odds a shaniqua was driving.
Singaporean vessel, crashed at 1AM shortly after departing port.
I'm making a stab in the dark bet that maybe the bridge was running on a skeleton crew and one or more of them were drunk as fuck from partying on the same night they were due to depart.
The vessel apparently has a history of crashing into things, so maybe the captain is an alcoholic.
Bro I remember watching these Asian chicks slowly back up and hit a car repeatedly in a big parking lot. Then they chinged a lot at each other trying to figure out next steps. I just stood there laughing and watching because it's just so poetic.
One time, I was driving my father's car to a train and bus parking lot close to an airport, because the plan was for him to take the car back home once his plane landed, and I would take the bus to the city, then use the train in the evening to get back home. Before he left on his trip, he told me: "If anything happens to that car, I'll kill you." (Probably figuratively.)
So right before the train parking lot, there was a 3-way traffic light. I stopped at the red light, waited until it turned green, then accelerated normally. About 2 seconds after I crossed the intersection, in my rear view mirror, I saw a car going way too fast coming from the perpendicular direction, ignoring the light that was still red in her direction, driving over the sidewalk, over the grass, and hitting a tree. A few minutes later, as the bus was passing by the same intersection, I saw that it was an asian woman that seemed to be in her mid thirties and who seemed extremely dizzy that had gotten out of the car. No idea what led to her losing control like that.
You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
Hard to tell from this angle but it looked like even with the power loss it would have went through fine, them trying to pull a hard turn after power came back and the 2nd outage leading to it turning too far seems like where things fucked up.
I'd guess prob one of 2 things happened on that end, pilot freaked out and once power was back on turned way too hard or if they were using some autopilot it over-corrected to try and get back on course.
My bet is the (DEI harbor) pilot said 'oh fuck', put the ship in reverse causing the black smoke and failure because massive engines with huge inertia don't like to get slammed in reverse, got it restarted and the reverse thrust made it veer wildly off course.
That or they hit the emergency off button in their panic and Jesus took the wheel. Zero chance it was just mechanical failure.
Reminder that Russia suffered a major terrorist attack less than a week ago. Now I'm not some TDS-addled "everything is Russia's fault!" Lefty, but in this one particular case, I'm not ruling out a connection to that Russian attack. I don't believe for one second that "ISIS" killed all those Russians and not our own shitty CIA.
False flag by who for what? This is not even being presented as an attack, let alone by a specific actor. Take your fucking meds holy shit. I legitimately fear for the mental health of everyone on this site.
Not yet, anyways. Klaus over at the WEF has been pushing the cyber attack fearmongering for literal years, NATO is itching for any excuse at all to go to war with Russia, and America has been subject to asymmetric warfare for years. Of course people are going to be skeptical that this is an accident.
Baltimore Harbor closed for the foreseeable future, until the debris gets cleared
MASSIVE traffic problems in the area (apparently 30,000+ cars used that bridge daily, they have the tunnels but those are going to be way too over-stressed to accommodate all of that)
Third longest continuous-span bridge in the world is now rubble
MASSIVE traffic problems in the area (apparently 30,000+ cars used that bridge daily, they have the tunnels but those are going to be way too over-stressed to accommodate all of that)
A longer video is posted further up the thread showing the ship having power failures right before crashing, so you're probably right, an incompetent pilot freaked out and screwed up when power was recovered.
Doubtful, the point of a terrorist attack is a show of force, you not only want to display despite your advantages or distance, we can still hit you, you also want to make it clear it was you who did it.
This is too easily written off as gross negligence to be terrorist.
Guess my paranoia is getting the best of me, I was thinking it was the CIA pushing for another terror attack to get some 9/11 unity moment going to get Biden elected.
It is possible, but there is no chance the current regime would say so. Suppose it was terror, then either the CIA/FBI/deepstate planned it, or while they were busy trying to convict Trump for what he ate for lunch last week, they let a major terrorist attack happen.
Still a chance it was something like a drunk captain or the rudder broke, but for me the seed of doubt is sown on whatever official story is put out.
Following on the heels of the terrorist attack in Russia, which was almost definitely NATO? Yeah it's pretty likely. Deliberately rams with cargo ships has been a favored Chinese tactic for a decade and a half.
It seems like the ship kept losing power (rumor is a fire on board), and kept losing control because of it. Looks like it was stuck in a turn for a bit, which is how it got pointed at the supports in the first place. You can see at the end, the ship is almost drifting straight ahead, and just barely starts turning away before it hits the support.
Hard to say for sure yet, but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots. For a ship this size, if you start a turn thinking about where the ship will be a full five minutes from now, that's basically hauling ass. If you start losing control at random intervals, there's absolutely no way of knowing where you're going to end up.
but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots.
There was no smoke in this view until after the power went out.
Ship was built in 2015. That's not that long ago so I doubt it was mechanical failure.
I bet they put it in full power reverse. It has fixed pitch blades so to put it in reverse they'd probably have to shut the engines down. It's not normal procedure anyway to quickly go from forward to reverse and that probably led to the smoke and power failures and crazy steering (steering in reverse while moving forward will not go as expected).
Song is about the worst (road) bridge disaster in Australian history, from the perspective of one of the survivors (Eddie Halsall). Worth noting the fact that we have had quite a few disasters like this, including the Tasman Bridge collapse, which was fairly similar to what just happened...
That one, and Westgate, were both the result of sheer incompetence, though, and arguably class warfare in the case of the latter (engineers thinking they knew better than the workers on the ground), but in honour of the construction workers (and whoever else may have been present) who almost certainly died today, yeah, I present this song.
Imagine what would happen were you in a squatting pose, low center of gravity that would be difficult to topple, and then someone took a shotgun to one of your ankles at close range.
Hundred thousand tons of ship hitting horizontally vs bridge that's really strong vertically. As soon as the pier is compromised the whole thing just becomes levers and physics.
It's the style of construction used (cantilever) that caused the whole thing to fall when only one support was removed. A beam bridge would have failed at the section where hit but is unlikely to completely fail the way this one did.
As expected:
archived source : https://archive.ph/ZGAmu
How to promote a positive work culture Oceanbulk Maritime S A continuously promotes a positive work culture for its employees. Because of this, the company has initiated an employee recognition program. Also, the company focuses on diversity and inclusivity. Oceanbulk Maritime S A gives respect to their employees, and they encourage their employees to respect their colleagues. The company has zero-tolerance policies against harassment, abuse and discrimination. Positive culture plays an important role in the success of any organization (Heinz, 2021). Four Types of Organizational Culture
Wow, quick find. Well done on archiving this before they inevitably scrub it!
Pity the captain didn’t study “bridge vs river” instead of “masculinity vs feminineity”!
According to the WSJ, the ship, Dali, was operated by Synergy Marine Group. Is that the company you have posted, there?
https://x.com/sweetcaligurl07/status/1772556901076672597
Dali is owned by Oceanbulk Containers. Oceanbulk Containers is a joint venture between Oceanbulk Maritime S.A. and Oaktree Capital Management L.P., established in 2013.
source :
https://maritime-union.com/company/oceanbulk-container-management-sa
edit: archive link : https://archive.ph/KjCNl
Home portSINGAPORE
Owner OCEANBULK MARITIME - ATHENS, GREECE
Manager OCEANBULK MARITIME - ATHENS, GREECE
Seems to be a discrepancy between what you've got and what I'm reading elsewhere. According to other reports, the ship is operated by the Singapore-based Synergy Marine Group.
I have an archived link to the balticshipping database.
I know absolutely nothing about these companies. But I trust my link more than any journalist.
Honestly, I trust some random posting on this board more than I trust any journalist, so I'm going with your thing, too.
It seems Both companies are praising hiring untalented women for the sake of their ovaries over their eyesight.
(See my other comment.)
Synergy Marine :
Thrilled to see the buzz around the Diversity@Sea project, aiming for more inclusive seafaring. 🚢🌍 We're committed to gender parity in the industry and proud to contribute to this crucial initiative.
https://x.com/synergygroup06/status/1769980894494797951
edit: archived linkedin post :
https://archive.ph/59hZ0
“Those involved are not simply putting more women on board than presently usual and then just jotting down a few reminders. They have all embarked on a detailed process that, in repeating cycle, will find, act on and review information as part of a continuum of adjusting all aspects of onboard life, so that one day all women seafarers are as content as they are unremarked, and the industry can genuinely claim gender parity.
We are still a long way off, but we will get there if we follow the signs.
The Synergy Marine Group is highly delighted, wholly enthusiastic and very proud in being one of the participants in this initiative. Now, in the second half of Women's History Month, there is a strong sense of making, as well as celebrating, history.
#WeAreSynergy
#DiversityAtSea #womeninmaritime #genderparity #SailingForChange #womenshistorymonth #dei”
Either way, it's been pointed out elsewhere in the thread that the ship was still in the boundaries of the harbor, so would have had a local pilot from the Baltimore docks behind the wheel. Being that Baltimore is something like 90% "diverse", pretty high odds a shaniqua was driving.
Singaporean vessel, crashed at 1AM shortly after departing port.
I'm making a stab in the dark bet that maybe the bridge was running on a skeleton crew and one or more of them were drunk as fuck from partying on the same night they were due to depart.
The vessel apparently has a history of crashing into things, so maybe the captain is an alcoholic.
Fuckin Asian drivers
Can confirm. Asian women are the worst drivers. I encounter them daily
Bro I remember watching these Asian chicks slowly back up and hit a car repeatedly in a big parking lot. Then they chinged a lot at each other trying to figure out next steps. I just stood there laughing and watching because it's just so poetic.
One time, I was driving my father's car to a train and bus parking lot close to an airport, because the plan was for him to take the car back home once his plane landed, and I would take the bus to the city, then use the train in the evening to get back home. Before he left on his trip, he told me: "If anything happens to that car, I'll kill you." (Probably figuratively.)
So right before the train parking lot, there was a 3-way traffic light. I stopped at the red light, waited until it turned green, then accelerated normally. About 2 seconds after I crossed the intersection, in my rear view mirror, I saw a car going way too fast coming from the perpendicular direction, ignoring the light that was still red in her direction, driving over the sidewalk, over the grass, and hitting a tree. A few minutes later, as the bus was passing by the same intersection, I saw that it was an asian woman that seemed to be in her mid thirties and who seemed extremely dizzy that had gotten out of the car. No idea what led to her losing control like that.
The ship is still within the harbour bounds, shouldn't it be driven by a pilot from the docks?
Good point, my shipping knowledge is mediocre at best, hadn't even thought about that.
Apparently a local pilot was driving the ship out of the port. I don't have a source but my wife was watching a broadcast where that was announced.
You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
Globalized supply chains, woohoo!
Hard to tell from this angle but it looked like even with the power loss it would have went through fine, them trying to pull a hard turn after power came back and the 2nd outage leading to it turning too far seems like where things fucked up.
I'd guess prob one of 2 things happened on that end, pilot freaked out and once power was back on turned way too hard or if they were using some autopilot it over-corrected to try and get back on course.
Seeing reports that the anchor was dropped, but that's what swung it into the bridge.
My bet is the (DEI harbor) pilot said 'oh fuck', put the ship in reverse causing the black smoke and failure because massive engines with huge inertia don't like to get slammed in reverse, got it restarted and the reverse thrust made it veer wildly off course.
That or they hit the emergency off button in their panic and Jesus took the wheel. Zero chance it was just mechanical failure.
That was my first thought, diversity bridge crew
Reminder that Russia suffered a major terrorist attack less than a week ago. Now I'm not some TDS-addled "everything is Russia's fault!" Lefty, but in this one particular case, I'm not ruling out a connection to that Russian attack. I don't believe for one second that "ISIS" killed all those Russians and not our own shitty CIA.
I believe isis did kill those Russians, but I also believe they were paid to do so by Ukraine/CIA
False flag by who for what? This is not even being presented as an attack, let alone by a specific actor. Take your fucking meds holy shit. I legitimately fear for the mental health of everyone on this site.
Not yet, anyways. Klaus over at the WEF has been pushing the cyber attack fearmongering for literal years, NATO is itching for any excuse at all to go to war with Russia, and America has been subject to asymmetric warfare for years. Of course people are going to be skeptical that this is an accident.
The amount of incompetence from everyone to allow this event to happen is bewildering...
So
Baltimore Harbor closed for the foreseeable future, until the debris gets cleared
MASSIVE traffic problems in the area (apparently 30,000+ cars used that bridge daily, they have the tunnels but those are going to be way too over-stressed to accommodate all of that)
Third longest continuous-span bridge in the world is now rubble
Will this finally wake people up? I doubt it.
Petition to have a general bitch slap session for all normies till they can recognise reality.
I volunteer to do the bitch slapping.
Get in line
Yeah, I wouldn't be going anywhere near those tunnels for the foreseeable future.
Fuckery is afoot.
Watch out for Capt Latisha with the nuke sub
The diverse Maryland governor's speech at the site was the usual leftist identity drek too. All emotion, no plan.
Now if this happened in the sky, Golden Parachutes for the non-plebs.
Is there any chance it was a terrorist attack?
Possibly, but my bet would be on competency (or lack thereof).
A longer video is posted further up the thread showing the ship having power failures right before crashing, so you're probably right, an incompetent pilot freaked out and screwed up when power was recovered.
And incompetent mechanics caused the power failures to begin with.
And incompetent managers probably fired the one old guy who tried to flag the maintenance errors.
Doubtful, the point of a terrorist attack is a show of force, you not only want to display despite your advantages or distance, we can still hit you, you also want to make it clear it was you who did it.
This is too easily written off as gross negligence to be terrorist.
Guess my paranoia is getting the best of me, I was thinking it was the CIA pushing for another terror attack to get some 9/11 unity moment going to get Biden elected.
But sadly they don't need it.
If a terrorist attack hit Baltimore, how could you possibly tell the difference?
It is possible, but there is no chance the current regime would say so. Suppose it was terror, then either the CIA/FBI/deepstate planned it, or while they were busy trying to convict Trump for what he ate for lunch last week, they let a major terrorist attack happen.
Still a chance it was something like a drunk captain or the rudder broke, but for me the seed of doubt is sown on whatever official story is put out.
Following on the heels of the terrorist attack in Russia, which was almost definitely NATO? Yeah it's pretty likely. Deliberately rams with cargo ships has been a favored Chinese tactic for a decade and a half.
Here's the cam footage. You can go back and watch the whole thing happen.
It seems like the ship kept losing power (rumor is a fire on board), and kept losing control because of it. Looks like it was stuck in a turn for a bit, which is how it got pointed at the supports in the first place. You can see at the end, the ship is almost drifting straight ahead, and just barely starts turning away before it hits the support.
Hard to say for sure yet, but I'm guessing that it wasn't incompetence on the part of the harbor pilots. For a ship this size, if you start a turn thinking about where the ship will be a full five minutes from now, that's basically hauling ass. If you start losing control at random intervals, there's absolutely no way of knowing where you're going to end up.
There was no smoke in this view until after the power went out.
Ship was built in 2015. That's not that long ago so I doubt it was mechanical failure.
I bet they put it in full power reverse. It has fixed pitch blades so to put it in reverse they'd probably have to shut the engines down. It's not normal procedure anyway to quickly go from forward to reverse and that probably led to the smoke and power failures and crazy steering (steering in reverse while moving forward will not go as expected).
Somebody fucked up many times in this incident.
From Association of Maryland Pilots (https://mdpilots.com) who would have been operating the ship at the time:
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkX9vg0jh58
"Westgate" by Mark Seymour.
Song is about the worst (road) bridge disaster in Australian history, from the perspective of one of the survivors (Eddie Halsall). Worth noting the fact that we have had quite a few disasters like this, including the Tasman Bridge collapse, which was fairly similar to what just happened...
That one, and Westgate, were both the result of sheer incompetence, though, and arguably class warfare in the case of the latter (engineers thinking they knew better than the workers on the ground), but in honour of the construction workers (and whoever else may have been present) who almost certainly died today, yeah, I present this song.
Is this in retribution for U.S. not standing by Bibi Netanyahu with regards to the U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire?
lol
Take down a bridge in BALTIMORE, I tell you!
Maybe if we piss them off enough, they'll attack Detroit.
Imagine if they went after D.C.
We would be so owned.
How would we ever know they attacked Detroit though?
There were allegedly cars on the bridge.
Chinese crewed or affiliated ships have conducted deliberate rams against Navy vessels before. Looks like they moved up to stationary assets.
This is an act of war by the way, not that our pants shitting government will do anything about it.
I wonder if it will ever get rebuilt.
The beltway interstate was built for a reason.
Something will be built. Question is will they do a bridge again or just dig another tunnel.
How can a bridge just upend like this so quickly? Are bridges build differently now or has this always been a thing? Genuenly confused here.
Support column completely destroyed. Suspension bridges are fragile when you get right down to it.
Imagine what would happen were you in a squatting pose, low center of gravity that would be difficult to topple, and then someone took a shotgun to one of your ankles at close range.
Hundred thousand tons of ship hitting horizontally vs bridge that's really strong vertically. As soon as the pier is compromised the whole thing just becomes levers and physics.
It's the style of construction used (cantilever) that caused the whole thing to fall when only one support was removed. A beam bridge would have failed at the section where hit but is unlikely to completely fail the way this one did.
https://stylesatlife.com/articles/types-of-bridge-structures-names-and-pics/
Think about it
Looked like a bunch of tinkertoys falling apart
We definitely have the capacity to rebuild it. What we lack is the will.