Last week’s disastrous collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River after being rammed by a giant container ship five times as long as Baltimore’s Washington Monument is tall in the early morning hours of March 26 shocked the world. It led to the death of a half-dozen men; crippled the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, putting thousands of jobs in jeopardy; disrupted supply chains; dead-ended the Baltimore Beltway’s eastern half and raised critical maritime safety issues.
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