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THE clean-up of the wreckage from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse will take a week longer than originally anticipated, reports New York's Sourcing Journal.
The Unified Command team, responsible for clearing the debris and restoring the shipping channel to the Port of Baltimore, announced that the pathway will be fully reopened to its original 700-foot width and 50-foot depth by June 8-10.
This is a slight delay from the initial plan to have the clean-up completed by the end of May.
On May 20, Unified Command cleared a 400-foot-wide section of the Fort McHenry Federal Channel, allowing all pre-collapse, deep-draft commercial vessels to transit to the Port of Baltimore.
The port has already received return commitments from Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, all of which have announced they are resuming services.
The port effectively closed when the 10,000-TEU Dali crashed into the Key Bridge on March 26, causing the structure's collapse and resulting in the death of six construction workers.
The ensuing wreckage blocked containerships and other vessels until Unified Command opened four separate alternate channels in the following weeks.
Despite the damaged Dali being refloated and removed from the port, the current 400-foot channel remains narrower than its original size because one section of the main span is still embedded in the mud.
https://shippingazette.com/news?news_id=9240600000169
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