Container ship removed 8 weeks after Francis Scott Key Bridge crash in Baltimore
The enormous container ship that collided with and collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March was moved from the site and taken to shore.
The enormous container ship that collided with and collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March was removed from the site and taken to shore on Monday in a complex procedure.
The Unified Command, a collection of local and federal agencies that managed the operation, said the ship became buoyant at around 6:40 a.m. ET and was slowly moved by tugboats to a local port.
The Dali crashed with the bridge in the early hours on March 26, causing a catastrophic failure of the structure which led to the deaths of six construction workers and disrupted shipping across the East Coast and has remained in the Patapsco River for the last eight weeks.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said on Sunday that the ship would be removed "within days."
"The refloat and transit sequence is deliberately designed to ensure all response personnel around the M/V Dali maintain control of the vessel, from refloat, transit to, and berthing at a local marine terminal," the command said in a statement Sunday.
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