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By Daniel Trota
(Reuters) – The Port of Baltimore opened a transition channel on Monday, freeing some tugboats and barges that had become stranded in the bridge cave last week, but said the broader recovery of advertising shipping remained thwarted by rigid conditions.
Baltimore’s shipping channel has been blocked since a fully loaded container lost power and collided with a column on the Francis Scott Key Bridge last Tuesday, killing six highway employees and causing the bridge to fall into the Patapsco River.
A U. S. Coast Guard-led recovery team has been deployed to the U. S. Coast Guard for the U. S. Coast Guard. The U. S. and Maryland state are aiming to temporarily reopen the port, the largest in the U. S. U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (US) for imports of loading and unloading vehicles and exports of agricultural and structural equipment.
But first they have to release Dali’s shipment, trapped in the rubble of a metal bridge with 4,000 boxes and 21 crew members stranded on board since the crash.
To illustrate the task ahead, officials said it took recovery personnel 10 hours to drop and remove 200-ton debris, which they called “a small elevator. “
“We’re talking about anything that’s almost the length of the Statue of Liberty,” Gov. Wes Moore said at a news conference. “The scale of this project, to be clear, is enormous. And even the smallest (tasks) are huge. “
Underneath, the paintings are even more confusing than initially imagined, U. S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. U. S. Shannon Gilreath, because the twisted metal is obscured by the murky waters obscured by the volume of debris.
“These beams are tangled, intertwined, which makes it very complicated to determine where you potentially want to cut so that we can make them more manageable to get them out of the water,” Gilreath said at the same news conference.
Officials declined to estimate how long it would take to empty the port.
Limited shipping traffic resumed for the first time Monday after recovery crews opened a transition channel with an intensity of 11 feet (3. 35 meters) on the north side of the wreck.
The first shipment to cross the channel was a tugboat pushing a barge supplying jet fuel to the U. S. Department of Defense, the Coast Guard said on Facebook, posting a video of the barge gliding under a truncated segment of the bridge that is still standing.
A second channel on the south side, 15 to 16 feet (4. 6 to 4. 9 meters) deep, would open “in the next few days,” Moore said.
Once the debris is removed, a third channel with an intensity of 20 to 25 feet (6. 1 to 7. 6 meters) would allow nearly all tugboat and barge traffic in and out of the port, Gilreath said.
U. S. President Joe Biden will get a firsthand look at the recovery on Friday when he travels to Baltimore, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The Biden administration helped secure barges and a crane, as well as an early influx of cash, and was working with Congress to make sure the federal government will pay for the bridge’s reconstruction.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta in Carlsbad, Calif. ; additional reporting by Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw in Washington; editing by Aurora Ellis and Stephen Coates)
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