How the Baltimore bridge collapse upended a D.C. coffee chain’s business

When he woke on March 26 to the news that Baltimore’s Key Bridge had collapsed, Michael Haft, co-founder of Compass Coffee, dialed his chief operating officer. “You have to reroute all of our coffee immediately,” Haft recalled saying. The collapse upended the supply chain for the D.C.-based roaster, which imports most of its beans through the Port of Baltimore.