The shipping route of the Port of Baltimore was blocked after a ship full of containers lost power. Collision with Francis Scott Key bridge abutment on March 26 killed 6 road workers and highway bridge collapses into river Patapsco.
The officials said the restoration of commercial shipping remains hampered by difficult conditions.
A recovery team led by the U.S. Coast Guard and the state of Maryland was deployed. assigned the task of quickly reopening the country’s largest port to clear the way for marine transport vehicles to import and export agricultural and construction equipment.
To do this, they must first solve the problem. escape the cargo ship Dali trapped under steel bridge debris with 4,000 containers trapped on the ship since the accident.
Officials said rescue workers needed 10 hours to cut and remove removing each 200-ton structure.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore said at a press conference: “We’re talking about something nearly the size of the Statue of Liberty… Obviously the scale of this project is huge. And even the smallest (tasks) are huge.”
US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath said underwater work is even more complicated than imagined because of twisted steel. obscured by murky waters and darkened by the mass of debris.
Ms Gilreath said: “These bridge girders are essentially twisted together and interlocked, making it very difficult to find where they need to be. cutting so we can break it down into blocks of the right size to lift them out of the water.
Officials declined to estimate how long it would take to completely clear the road. .
Traffic resumed for the first time on April 1 after rescue teams opened a temporary channel with a depth limit of 3 35m on the north side of the pile. crushed.
The first ship to pass through this canal was a tugboat towing a barge supplying aircraft fuel to the US Department of Defense, the Coast Guard said on Facebook.
Governor Moore added a second temporary channel in the south with a depth of between 4 6m and 4 9m would be opened “in the coming days”.
Rear Admiral Gilreath said after the pieces The third canal, which has a depth of 6 1m to 7 6m, will allow most towing vehicles and barges to enter and exit the port.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said know that US President Joe Biden will personally review the recovery process on April 5 when he comes to Baltimore.
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