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VIDEO: First commercial vessel transits new fourth Baltimore temporary channel

new fourth Baltimore temporary channel

Efforts to get the Port of Baltimore up and running again are making progress. According to Coast Guard Sector Maryland, the status of the port is now “Open with Restrictions.” A new, fourth, Baltimore temporary channel to the port, the Fort McHenry Limited Access Channel, is now open and imagery released yesterday showed the first ship transiting the new limited access deep draft channel: the 2013-built. 7,746 dwt Panama-flagged general cargo ship Balsa 91.

This new fourth Baltimore temporary...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/video-first-commercial-vessel-transits-new-fourth-baltimore-temporary-channel/

City of Baltimore lawyers up to pursue Key Bridge damages

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced yesterday that the City of Baltimore is taking legal steps to “proactively and aggressively address the catastrophic impact the Key Bridge collapse has had on the City of Baltimore and its residents, including the families of the victims, business owners, and longshoremen and other port workers.

The City of Baltimore has engaged national complex issues and trial firm DiCello Levitt and Philadelphia law firm Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky Trial Lawyers to...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/city-of-baltimore-lawyers-up-to-pursue-key-bridge-damages/

VIDEO: Key Bridge response, what’s new?

As the Key Bridge response Unified Command continues efforts to reopen access to the Port of Baltimore, the NTSB continues its investigation into what went wrong on board the containership Dali before it smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. At a Senate hearing on her renomination, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said Wednesday that investigators believe that there is a connection between the lights going out on the ship, as seen in...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/video-key-bridge-response-whats-new/

VIDEO: Salvors remove first containers from Dali

As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works towards its target of restoring full access to the Port of Baltimore by the end of May, the Unified Command responding to the incident has begun to remove containers from the M/V Dali. The 946 foot containership has been pinned under a massive section of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge since striking it on March 26. Salvors are removing the containers as part of the effort to gain access to the portion of the Key Bridge that remains atop the...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/video-salvors-remove-first-containers-from-dali/

USACE targets end-of-may restoration of full Port of Baltimore access

As work to cope with the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse continued, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced a tentative timeline for the restoration of safe navigation in and out of the Port of Baltimore.

After detailed studies and engineering assessments by local, state and federal organizations, in collaboration with industry partners, USACE expects to open a limited access channel 280 feet wide and 35 feet deep, to the Port of Baltimore within the next four weeks...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/salvage/usace-targets-end-of-may-restoration-of-full-port-of-baltimore-access/

Key Bridge response operations deal with weather challenges

The Unified Command responding to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was continuing to coordinate operations Wednesday, despite challenging weather conditions that included severe thunderstorms and high winds.

Trained crews, in conjunction with the Unified Command, were taking steps forward with operations and conducting routine salvage assessments, while evaluating the safest and most effective routes. Divers are on scene to conduct underwater surveys along with mapping out...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/key-bridge-response-operations-deal-with-weather-challenges/

VIDEO: With first Baltimore temporary channel open, a second is in the works

As the first vessel successfully transited the Baltimore temporary channel established following the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Unified Command responding to the disaster announced plans to establish a second alternate channel.

The first vessel transiting the temporary channel, at 3.00 p.m. yesterday was the tugboat Crystal Coast pushing a fuel barge used to supply jet fuel to the Department of Defense, It was transiting to Dover Air Force Base.

USCG video

The first...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/video-with-first-baltimore-temporary-channel-open-a-second-is-in-the-works/

VIDEO: Work starts on Baltimore temporary alternate channel

As the first pieces of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge began to be removed, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel on the northeast side of the main channel in the vicinity of the bridge for commercially essential vessels.

How soon that will happen remains unclear, but video released yesterday by the Coast Guard showed Aids to Navigation (ATN) teams starting to drop buoys to mark the temporary alternate channel

“This will...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/video-work-starts-on-baltimore-temporary-alternate-channel/

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