Safety? Not even a consideration.

The marching orders were to get to Puerto Rico ASAP.
LIke you said..Time is money..
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and was facing a “severe electrical problem,” a port worker told CNN’s UK affiliate, ITN.

Julie Mitchell, co-administrator of Container Royalty, a company that keeps track of the tonnage on container ships that comes into Baltimore, said the ship was in the port for two days.

“And those two days, they were having serious power outages… they had a severe electrical problem,” Mitchell said. “It was total power failure, loss of engine power, everything.”
She said refrigerated boxes kept tripping breakers, while mechanics had generators running while they were trying to fix the ship. CNN is unable to independently verify the information.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Tuesday that the crew of the ship notified officials that it had lost power prior to the crash.

Mitchell said these types of power problems are “not really that common at all,” calling Tuesday’s incident “very rare.”

“They shouldn’t have let the ship leave port until they got it on under control,” she said, adding that she did not know whether the issue was fixed before the ship set sail.

CNN has reached out to the operator of the ship, Synergy Group, for comment.'

A geomagnetic storm is not going to knock out a ship just 1000 foot long and not knock out the power grid. The 'antenna' is just too small.

But somehow, the company management makes leaving port sound like an excellent idea.

Ultimately it's up to the Captain and the Chief Engineer on whether or not to sail. It is required from the company that they make sure the ship is in condition to leave port, but humans are involved and may underestimate the seriousness of a problem. And there are a lot of ships where repairs are hidden, or not done at all.

Capitalism trumps everything including safety