Trapped vessels navigate Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest on the cleanup effort after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel Monday for some tugs and barges that had been stranded in the harbor by last week's bridge collapse. Work toward a wider restoration of commercial shipping traffic at the port remains ongoing.
The port's primary shipping channel has been blocked since the container ship MV Dali lost power and crashed into a support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers when the bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River.
A recovery team led by the U.S. Coast Guard and the state of Maryland is working to reopen the port, which is the second largest in the U.S. for «roll-on, roll-off» vehicle imports and exports of farm and construction equipment.
Limited ship traffic resumed for the first time on Monday after a temporary channel with a controlling depth, or minimum depth, of 11 feet was opened on the northbound side of the channel blocked by the wreckage of the bridge and the still-trapped container ship.
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Poor weather and the complexity of dealing with the bridge wreckage has delayed recovery efforts. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Getty Images)
The first vessel to pass through the channel was a tugboat with a barge supplying jet fuel to the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard said in a post on Facebook showing video of the barge passing under a truncated section of the bridge that is still standing.
A second temporary channel is planned for the southbound side that will have a depth of 15 to 16
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