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Despite re-routing several ships to other ports, there's still added costs that are hampering supply chains for vehicles, coal, tractors and all kinds of other goods.
Strangely, I couldn't find any updates in the NY Times about the recovery efforts or even the plans to open even a limited channel. So I found a Baltimore station that says the temporary channel has limited width and draw, so 300 ft wide and 20 feet deep w/a vertical clearance of 135 feet. But that eliminates the kind of container ship that killed the bridge in the first place. They're working on a larger channel that they're trying to open by the end of April.
I guess there's 2 bodies left to find? It's pretty sad that most of these workers were immigrants who were just trying to make a better life for their families. They were filling potholes on the deck surface, I guess, when the collapse occurred.
The Harbor Tunnel doesn't allow containers of flammable gas, so people with RVs or industrial vehicles have to take a long way around to go north or south.
It's a major mess. I'm curious about who will end up paying for this. The shipping company that owns the Dali (no relationship to the surrealist painter) have filed a petition to limit their liability (they had 6 months to do this but managed to file it in 6 days). If they're successful, all they'll have to pay for is the cost of the vessel & its freight, minus repair and salvage costs. So, probably under $44 million. That's ridiculous. As far as the bridge goes, "oops! sorry about that..."