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An eerily accurate simulation of the Baltimore disaster at Cal Maritime showed the crew couldn't avoid hitting the bridge under the same conditions.

The Baltimore disaster, including tragic loss of life, provides a reminder that the world remains dangerous.

Less than two weeks after a massive cargo ship caused carnage when it hit a bridge in Baltimore, a second enormous vessel has come dangerously close to a bridge in New York after it lost “some of its” controls in the city’s harbor.

BALTIMORE — Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a familiar steel superstructure of triangulated sections about half a mile long, a sight that was part of Baltimore’s skyline for decades. A similar drive sometime in the future, engineers ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has a tentative timeline of restoring access to the Port of Baltimore to “normal capacity” by the end of May, it said in a statement Thursday night. “Engineers are aiming to reopen the permanent, 700-foot-wide by 50-foot-deep federal navigation channel by the end of May, restoring port access to normal capacity,” according to the news release. Also, the Corps said ...

President repeats his vow to ‘move heaven and earth’ to rebuild the collapsed bridge and reopen the Port of Baltimore

US President Joe Biden promised Friday to "move heaven and earth" to rebuild a collapsed Baltimore bridge as he visited the site of the disaster that killed six people."We're going to move heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible."

Shipping accounts for 3% of global CO2 emissions

Tests have shown the water is safe despite concerns over hazardous materials on the Dali cargo ship.

As a massive cargo ship plowed into the Key Bridge, killing six men and folding steel into mangled, unrecognizable chunks that fell to the bottom of the Patapsco River, a hidden threat lay below. Beneath the 248-million pound ship, which has thousands of tons of bridge wreckage on top of it, runs a high-pressure natural gas pipeline that’s 24 inches in diameter and spans the shipping channel. ...