The Port of Baltimore shipping failure and bridge collapse could have potentially been avoided by a tugboat mandate, but government isn’t aligned on…
The Dali, which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused its collapse was not piloted by tug boats near the structure as it exited the Port of Baltimore, with some experts saying tugs could have helped to avert disaster.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklywas guided by two 5,000-horsepower tugs out of her berth, but then the tugs peeled off once the Dali was in the channel leaving the port, per normal operating procedures. At the Port of Baltimore, once a vessel is either inside the harbor heading to berth or outside of the harbor heading to the ocean, the tugs peel off.
On March 26, in an email to the Coast Guard, CNBC asked if the federal government would consider creating a regulation making it mandatory for tugs to accompany vessels around key infrastructure. The next day, the Coast Guard referred CNBC to the Joint Information Center for the Key Bridge Casualty 2024 incident in Baltimore. The JIC is the agency investigating arm involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employees.
"This would require a regulatory process which would take time as well as added costs on the industry that some might fight," Roth said.
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