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The limited-access channel currently open for 24/7 commercial vessel traffic into the port is deep enough to support most cargo vessels, though not at the normal rate seen before the bridge collapsed.
BALTIMORE — The first of 11 ships trapped for a month behind the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge left the Port of Baltimore Thursday using an alternate shipping channel that opened earlier in the morning. The Balsa 94, a cargo ship, sailed just before 10 a.m. with the help of two tugboats, passing chunks of the fallen steel bridge and the still grounded Dali freighter that crashed ...
BALTIMORE — The first of three temporary shipping channels opened Monday on the northern side of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, offering responders a path as they work to salvage the bridge and ship that struck it. At a depth of roughly 11 feet, the temporary route is a fraction of the main “deep draft” shipping channel’s 50-foot depth. But it will provide a route for shallower tugs ...
BALTIMORE — Data capturing the moments before the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge has been secured by the National Transportation Safety Board and is being analyzed by the federal agency’s lab, officials confirmed Wednesday. Large ships are required by international regulations to carry voyage data recorders that, similar to the “black box” found on aircraft, help ...
BALTIMORE — Data capturing the moments before the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge has been secured by the National Transportation Safety Board and is being analyzed by the federal agency’s lab, officials confirmed Wednesday. Large ships are required by international regulations to carry voyage data recorders that, similar to the “black box” found on aircraft, help ...