Baltimore Port Fully Reopens Shipping Channel After Bridge Collapse

The Port of Baltimore’s main shipping channel fully reopened on Monday evening, more than two months after a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The reopening means full-capacity cargo traffic can resume through the waterway, which has been restored to its original dimensions of 700 feet wide and 50 feet deep. The shipping waterway had been restricted since March 26, when the M/V Dali, a massive cargo ship, struck a crucial central support pylon of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, knocking it into the Patapsco River. The wreckage of the fallen pylon blocked the channel. Since then, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving have been working to remove an estimated 50,000 tons of steel and concrete from the riverbed and restore the channel. The Unified Command response team set up operations at a cruise ship terminal in the port in the weeks following the disaster....