The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday to free some tugs and barges trapped by the recent bridge collapse.
According to Reuters, the recovery team, led by the U.S. Coast Guard and the state of Maryland, is working to reopen the port. The cargo vessel Dali, stuck under steel bridge debris with 4,000 containers and a 21-member crew onboard, is a primary concern.
Recovery workers spent 10 hours to remove a 200-ton piece of debris, highlighting the enormity of the task ahead. The U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath described the challenge of the recovery as complicated due to tangled and obscured twisted steel under murky waters.
Limited ship traffic resumed with the opening of a temporary channel on the northbound side of the wreckage, allowing a tugboat pushing a barge supplying jet fuel to the U.S. Department of Defense to transit.
A second temporary channel on the southbound side will open in the coming days, and a third channel, once debris is cleared, will allow most tug and barge traffic with a depth of 20 to 25 feet, Reuters reports,
