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The enormous container ship that collided with and collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March was set to be moved from the site and taken to shore on Monday in a complex procedure. The M/V Dali crashed with the bridge in the early hours on March 26, causing a catastrophic failure of the structure which led to the deaths of six constructions workers and disrupted shipping across the East Coast, and has remained in the Patapsco River for the last eight weeks. Maryland Gov.
Engineers had planned to examine the ship, release some of the anchors and mooring lines still attached to it, and de-ballast, or remove, some or all of the 1.25 million gallons of water that was pumped onto the ship to compensate for the weight removed by precision cutting on May 13. When it is freed and on the open water, up to five tugboats are to escort the Dali the 2-and-a-half miles to a local port — all at a speed of around 1 mph.
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