Two subsidiaries of the shipping company responsible for operating the container vessel M/V Dali face federal criminal charges for their roles in events leading up to the vessel’s deadly 2024 collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The federal indictment names Singapore-based Synergy Marine Pte Ltd, and Chennai, India-based Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd—both units of Synergy Global Marine, also of Singapore—and Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, 47, an Indian national who worked for both companies as the Dali’s technical superintendent. Citing the chain of events detailed by the National Transportation Safety Board’s 18-month investigation into the incident, the indictment alleges the defendants were responsible for making modifications to the Dali that compromised “reliable redundancies and automatic restart capabilities” originally designed as part of the vessel’s critical systems. The modifications included use of a flushing pump to supply fuel to two of the Dali’s four generators.…