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The alternative channel is being set up for use by "essential" commercial vessels.

The authorities were preparing early Monday to open a “temporary alternate channel” around the collapsed structure. The exact timing was unclear.

A 200-ton piece of the bridge was removed from the crash site on Saturday as crews continued to clear the debris from the bridge, which collapsed when it was struck by a cargo ship last week.

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(BALTIMORE) — A cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, causing a near-total collapse of the span and halting vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore. Six construction workers are believed to have fallen from the collapsing […]

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The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel for commercially essential vessels near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, officials said Sunday. “This will mark an important first step along the road to reopening the port of Baltimore,” Coast Guard Capt. David O’Connell, the federal on-scene coordinator for the…

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Officials said the temporary channel is open only to vessels that are helping with the cleanup effort. Authorities believe four workers plunged to their deaths in the collapse.

Crews have begun the complicated work of removing steel and concrete at the site.