A third 6 m deep channel has been established through the downed bridge at Baltimore port providing limited access for commercially essential vessels with officials saying the three shallow channels should get the port back to 15% of pre-bridge collapse commercial activity.
The aim is to get a deeper channel up and running by the end of this month, and to return the port to full operational capacity by the end of May.
The 9,962 teu Dali containership, managed by Synergy and on charter to Maersk, has been pinned down under mangled steel in the Patapsco River since it slammed into a bridge on March 26, killing six road maintenance workers.
More than 1,300 tons of steel of what was once Baltimore’s largest bridge have been removed from the Patapsco so far, while salvors have managed to take 120 containers off the stricken Dali.
Surely a tugboat should be compulsory if they don’t have emergency power and battery back up! I worked in Charing Cross Hospital, it had mains,gas powered emergency backup power checked 9am Sunday am, also battery at 68 voltage in lead acid glass batteries