The crane, which can lift up to 1,000 tons, will be used to clear the channel in order to resume the search for four workers who remain missing and reopen the key shipping route.
Roughly 2,400 members whose jobs are at risk of drying up until shipping can resume in the Port of Baltimore.
in immediate aid. President Joe Biden has said the federal government will pay the full cost of rebuilding the bridge. The devastation left behind after the cargo ship lost power and struck a support pillar early Tuesday is extensive. Divers recovered the bodies of two men from a pickup truck in the Patapsco River near the bridge's middle span Wednesday, but officials said they have to start clearing the wreckage before anyone can reach the bodies of four other missing workers.
The three said in a statement that they were "proud to carry out our duties as officers of this state to save the lives that we could.", which is managed by Synergy Marine Group, was headed from Baltimore to Sri Lanka. It is owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and was chartered by Danish shipping giant Maersk.
. Fourteen of those were destroyed, officials said. However industrial hygienists who evaluated the contents identified them as perfumes and soaps, the Key Bridge Joint Information Center said, and there was "no immediate threat to the environment."
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