Marine traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore was suspended until further notice after a massive container ship smashed into the four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge early in the morning, causing it to collapse and sending cars and people plunging into the river below.
More than 40 vessels, including small cargo ships, tug boats and pleasure craft, were stuck inside the port.
“While Baltimore is not one of the largest U.S. East Coast ports, it still imports and exports more than one million containers each year, so there is the potential for this to cause significant disruption to supply chains,” said Emily Stausbøll, market analyst at Xeneta, an ocean freight shipping rate benchmarking and intelligence platform.
Three vessels inside the port had been due to load commodities, while other smaller ships, including pleasure crafts, were also unable to leave, separate data showed.
Top Danish container shipping group Maersk said due to the damage to the bridge and resulting debris, it was omitting Baltimore port from all its services “for the foreseeable future, until it is deemed safe for passage through this area.”
The container ship Dali, which collided with the bridge on Tuesday, was chartered by Maersk at the time of the incident in Baltimore.
The original article contains 545 words, the summary contains 193 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I don’t understand why anyone would downvote this.
I did a few times when the “anti-AMP” robot came on Reddit. I was so annoyed by them like, “bitch, don’t tell me my link is dodgy, I didn’t ask for your help”. Then I clicked the little “Why?” link in those posts and learned exactly why they were right and I was a dumb little crybaby.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Marine traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore was suspended until further notice after a massive container ship smashed into the four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge early in the morning, causing it to collapse and sending cars and people plunging into the river below.
More than 40 vessels, including small cargo ships, tug boats and pleasure craft, were stuck inside the port.
“While Baltimore is not one of the largest U.S. East Coast ports, it still imports and exports more than one million containers each year, so there is the potential for this to cause significant disruption to supply chains,” said Emily Stausbøll, market analyst at Xeneta, an ocean freight shipping rate benchmarking and intelligence platform.
Three vessels inside the port had been due to load commodities, while other smaller ships, including pleasure crafts, were also unable to leave, separate data showed.
Top Danish container shipping group Maersk said due to the damage to the bridge and resulting debris, it was omitting Baltimore port from all its services “for the foreseeable future, until it is deemed safe for passage through this area.”
The container ship Dali, which collided with the bridge on Tuesday, was chartered by Maersk at the time of the incident in Baltimore.
The original article contains 545 words, the summary contains 193 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I don’t understand why anyone would downvote this.
I did a few times when the “anti-AMP” robot came on Reddit. I was so annoyed by them like, “bitch, don’t tell me my link is dodgy, I didn’t ask for your help”. Then I clicked the little “Why?” link in those posts and learned exactly why they were right and I was a dumb little crybaby.