The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has disrupted shipping at one of the largest ports in the country — and the busiest U.S. port for car shipments. Automakers are scrambling to deal with new supply chain issues.

I didn’t realize Baltimore was so important for the car market of the Midwest and East Coast. Apparently 800,000+ cars are delivered per year through the Port of Baltimore, but with the bridge collapse today it sounds like shipments could cause some car market issues for a swath of the country.

  • @dragontamer@lemmy.worldOP
    15•3 months ago

    It’d take over a week just to move the 95,000 ton ship out of the wreckage. Honestly 2 or more weeks I’m thinking, there’s a giant hundred-ton metal beam just resting on top of the ship now, its not going to be easy to move that safely.

    Then weeks after that to clear out the rest of the old bridge to make enough room for the port to open back up.

    Then its going to take years to reconstruct the bridge and bring things back to normal.

    Don’t forget how big container ships are. Don’t you remember Evergiven?

    These things aren’t easy to move around, dig around, or work with.

      • @dragontamer@lemmy.worldOP
        1•3 months ago

        They don’t exactly have a choice.

        I’m sure they’ll work on removing the ship, and the remnants of the bridge, ASAP. But its not going to be easy.

    • @Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
      -2•3 months ago

      Only slightly related, when Sea of Thieves released their named/captained ships update, I immediately named my galleon Evergiven.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
      -6•3 months ago

      It’d take over a week just to move the 95,000 ton ship out of the wreckage.

      They have vehicles they use every day to move these ships around.

      there’s a giant hundred-ton metal beam just resting on top of the ship now,

      So pull it off?

      Then weeks after that to clear out the rest of the old bridge to make enough room for the port to open back up.

      Just tie the bridge to a tugboat and yank it out of the way?

      Then its going to take years to reconstruct the bridge

      You can do that without permanently stopping traffic through the port.

      These things aren’t easy to move around, dig around, or work with

      They’re not, that’s why there are boats designed specifically for that purpose.