Tag: Upheaval at a Busy Port

Key Bridge Was Also Hit by a Ship in 1980, With Limited Damage

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[ad_1] The massive cargo ship that lost control and slammed into a major Baltimore Key Bridge  on Tuesday was not the first to do so. The same bridge was also hit by a wayward cargo vessel in 1980. On Aug. 29 of that year, a container ship named the Blue Nagoya drifted into a pier that supported the structure, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, after losing control about 1,800 feet away, according to a 1983 report by the U.S. National Research Council. When the Blue Nagoya hit the Key Bridge,…

What We Know About the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse in Baltimore

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[ad_1] Follow our live coverage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. A giant container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Most of the bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River. Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland declared a state of emergency shortly after the ship hit the Francis Scott Key bridge, a part of Interstate 695 and a critical transportation link on the Eastern Seaboard to one of the largest ports in the country. Vessel traffic has since been stopped.…

Desperate Rescue Mission Shifts to Grim Search for 6 Workers’ Bodies on the Bridge

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Rescue Mission Descends into Tragedy: Cargo Ship Collides with Bridge, Leaving Six Workers Presumed Dead. [ad_1] As a spring tide rushed out of Baltimore harbor just after midnight on Tuesday, the hulking outlines of a cargo ship nearly three football fields long and stacked high with thousands of containers sliced through frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Baltimore harbor Bridge. The vessel, the Dali, was a half-hour into its 27-day journey from Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Then the lights on the Dali went dark. The crew urgently reported…