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Baltimore Implements Emergency Shipping Route to Navigate Key Bridge Wreckage

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Baltimore open a temporary channel to restore traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. The new channel allows some vessels to bypass wreckage, but efforts to clear heavier debris for larger vessels continue. [ad_1] Officials in Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday to help restore some traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore, one of the nation’s busiest commercial shipping hubs. The alternate channel will allow some essential vessels to bypass wreckage from the collapsed Francis Scott Key…

Deciphering Disaster: The Key Bridge Catastrophe and the Five Minutes That Shook the City

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[ad_1] “Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.” The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and Key  bridges function around the world. But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act. In those minutes, many people — from the ship’s crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers,…