Baltimore shipping channel fully open again after bridge collapse
The channel in Baltimore was blocked to most maritime traffic for several weeks while crews worked to remove an estimated 50,000 tons of steel and concrete.
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The channel in Baltimore was blocked to most maritime traffic for several weeks while crews worked to remove an estimated 50,000 tons of steel and concrete.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge,
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced the full restoration of Baltimore's Fort McHenry Federal Channel on Monday.
All shipping traffic in and out of Port of Baltimore can resume.
Federal and Maryland state authorities fully reopened the main shipping channel to the Port of Baltimore on Monday, 11 weeks after a container ship caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six workers.