The rebuilt Francis Scott Key Bridge will have to accommodate not just the ships and trucks of today, but those of a 100 years from now.
The Coast Guard expects to allow the same size and kinds of cargo ships to come into the port that were able to prior to the bridge collapse.
We’ll hear why the Secretary wants to bring more transparency to airline and credit card rewards programs.
“It was like, ‘OK, this is a horrific event. And how are we going to recover from this?'” says Dawn Speakman, founder of Drayage Solutions in Baltimore.
The ironworkers, painters and others who constructed the bridge thought it would outlive them.
Tradepoint Atlantic, southeast of the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge, is the only terminal accepting cargo ships. And it’s expanding.
Funding will likely come from a variety of sources, including the federal government and insurance agencies.
More than 15,000 people work directly at the port, and more than 140,000 additional jobs are connected to it.
Baltimore’s port could be closed for months, keeping people out of work and leaving freighters looking for places to route their loads.
Containers carrying hundreds of tons of hazardous materials were on the ship, complicating the monumental cleanup.