Salvage Workers have started taking containers off the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. This is an important step to fully open one of the country’s main shipping lanes.
The boxes on the Dali ship’s deck will be taken away this week when the weather is good, as said in a statement from the Key Bridge Response Unified Command. Workers were working to take off parts of the bridge that are in front of the ship so it can start moving again.
Officials said that a total of 32 boats went through temporary paths around the wreckage.
“The Unified Command is working at the same time to clear enough debris from the channel to make it accessible for big commercial boats,” U.S. The leader of the Coast Guard. David O’Connell said in his message.
The Dali is stuck under bent steel in the Patapsco River after hitting the bridge on March 26. Six workers died in the accident.
President Joe Biden rode in a helicopter on Friday to see the damaged metal and the work being done to clean up the debris. The president also spent more than an hour with the families of the people who passed away.
A group of eight workers from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador were fixing holes in the bridge when it got hit and fell down in the middle of the night. Two men were saved and the bodies of three others were found in the following days. They kept looking for more people who were hurt.
Officials have made a new, temporary path for boats to clear away debris. The Army Corps of Engineers wants to open a restricted channel for certain types of ships in April, and to fully fix Baltimore’s port by the end of May, according to the White House.
More than 50 divers who recover things from the water and 12 machines that lift heavy things are at the location to help cut out parts of the bridge and take them out of the important water path.
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Salvage workers extract containers from ship that collapsed Baltimore’s Key bridge
