Watch: First Ships Leave Baltimore Port After Bridge Collapse | WSJ News

Footage shared with the Wall Street Journal shows one ship leaving the Port of Baltimore after being stranded for weeks. Vessels became trapped after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on March 26. Photo: Precious Shipping Public Company Limited

[@katjam01kr]

I'm glad to see the resilience of all of the people involved in bringing this port back to life! Good job! 💯

[@thomasd9237]

Um, the bridge didn't collapse It got knocked down.

[@JJordan1012]

Do t forget the toxic chemicals they spilled into the water

[@davey7452]

All the ships are getting a tug boat escort for the fore seeable future

[@MatthewThornton-rj9tr]

Just think of they put a tunnel there it wouldn't happen again. How many more people got to lose their lives from to do that

[@bcool6276]

Funny how they using tugboats to guide these ships out but not the Dali ...ummm ok yea

[@user-lv2kd6od6d]

They all have tug boats, …. lol

[@obbymtz10822]

So that boat had a guide.... But the one in the "accident" didn't? I live near the port of Houston and 99.9% of the time they have guides to enter and exit

[@sandhanitizer15]

I don't understand why you comment without knowing what even happened... The boat lost power so a guide would have been useless anyway, unless they were steering the ship using their mind. And why did you put accident in quotes? You think someone had a master plan to make a bridge collapse to close a port for a month or two?

[@puirYorick]

@@sandhanitizer15 I think they mean the tug boats when they say "guides" and I agree that all large ships should have tugs attending until they reach open water. Local pilots are just as helpless as anyone if the engines die.

[@sandhanitizer15]

@@puirYorick yeah, exactly what i mean...a tugboat can't steer the ship

[@kennethgrindrod6438]

Powerful tugs can control ships without steering,one forward one aft,can turn a ship being an ex seaman I have often seen them do it

[@puirYorick]

@@sandhanitizer15 They use tugs to control aircraft carriers, oil supertankers, huge cargo vessels and massive cruise ships. I don't know what planet you're from. I saw a TV show where tugs moved the worlds largest oil platform from harbour out to sea and into its precise anchor position using GPS.

[@AB-ot3bc]

It’s just so sad that it took a month to get the harbor open. If this was another country like Japan it would have been days , because they would have been arguing about how much they were going to get paid.

[@WeazelJaguar]

Hey, slow down, this is a construction work zone! Speeding fines doubled, don't ya know?

[@redlobster4841]

Why is the wreckage still there?How come they haven't been able to clear that what in the world

[@davegilbertson4907]

Number one priority was getting a channel open for traffic. The wreckage is stuck in mud. It also has major damage to the bow with flooding up front. I'd say there's likely a good amount on investigation happening as debris is cleared away.

[@vgorski7545]

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