Commercial vessels cleared by the Coast Guard for removal of debris in the Port of Baltimore bridge collapse are subject to strict requirements.
Commercials ships are now being allowed back into a Baltimore port shipping channel to remove debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.It remains unclear how long it will be before the Port of Baltimore opens again to containership traffic, and ocean carriers stressed that containerships are not part of the recent activity.
"The vessels will be decided on a case-by-case basis," said Carmen Caver, Coast Guard spokesperson."The size of these vessels are general work boats. Not the large containerships." The new ship channel will be limited to a vessel's draft, which is the minimum amount of water required for a vessel to traverse the waterway without the bottom of the boat touching.
Based on a review of AIS data from MarineTraffic, there have been almost 1,000 containership arrivals at Baltimore port since January 2022, with an average TEU of 7,039, according to Nikos Pothitakis, Kpler spokesman. The biggest container ship that arrived at the port during this period was the Ever Max, which visited the port twice in 2023 and once in early 2024.
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