WASHINGTON — The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore Bridge collapse have agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs to settle a Justice Department lawsuit, officials said.

The settlement does not cover any damages for the reconstruction of the bridge, officials said in a news release announcing the settlement. That construction project could cost nearly $2 billion. The state of Maryland filed its own claim for damages, among others.

The settlement comes a month after the Justice Department sued the ship’s owner, Grace Ocean Private Ltd., and manager Synergy Marine Group, both based in Singapore, seeking to recover funds from the cleanup.

The Justice Department alleged that electrical and mechanical systems on the ship, Dali, were improperly maintained, causing it to lose power and drift off course before striking a support column on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March. The ship was on its way from Baltimore to Sri Lanka when the steering failed due to loss of power.

Six men on a road crew filling potholes during a night shift have died. Cleanup crews worked around the clock searching for bodies and removing thousands of tons of damaged steel and broken concrete from the bottom of the Patapsco River. Dali was stranded amid the wreckage for nearly two months, with collapsed steel trusses draped over the ship’s damaged bow.

“This resolution ensures that the costs of the federal government’s cleanup efforts in the Fort McHenry Channel are borne by Grace Ocean and Synergy and not by American taxpayers,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Mizer said in a statement.

The collapse jolted commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore and put out many local liquidators before the canal was fully opened in June. It disrupted shipping routes on the East Coast, as the port is one of the busiest in the country, especially for machinery and farm equipment.

Grace Ocean and Synergy filed a court petition just days after the sinking, seeking to limit their legal liability in what could become the costliest maritime accident case in history.

Court records show that lawyers for both sides said in a joint filing late last week that they had reached a settlement agreement and asked to dismiss the Justice Department’s request for $103 million in cleanup costs.

In a written statement Friday, a spokesman for the companies said the settlement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing. He said Grace Ocean and Synergy would “vigorously defend themselves” in the other pending proceedings.

“The settlement strictly covers the costs of cleaning the canal, for which we would have been responsible in any event, and does not indicate any liability, which we expressly disclaim, for the incident that led to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. ” spokesman Darrell Wilson said, noting that the settlement does not include any punitive damages.

The Justice Department’s complaint was one of many filed in a sprawling liability case that will ultimately determine how much the ship’s owner and manager will owe for their role in the disaster. The other claims are still pending. They were filed on behalf of victims’ families, companies whose businesses suffered as a result of the collapse, municipal entities and more.