Coastal & Inland Waterways

The Fort Carroll Temporary Alternate Channel (in green) has a 20' controlling depth, a 300' horizontal clearance and vertical clearance of 135'. Key Bridge Response Unified Command graphic.

Third emergency channel open at Baltimore

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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore occurred following a collision with a container ship. Jay Fleming Photography.

The Baltimore blame game

Jerry Fraser

Donjon Marine's Chesapeake 1000 crane lifts 440 tons of wreckage of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge April 14, as efforts continued to clear the main channel to the Port of Baltimore. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District photo.

Chesapeake 1000 lifts 440-ton section of Baltimore bridge

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Heavy rains and currents on the Ohio River led to a breakaway of 26 barges at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 12, 2024. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo.

Pittsburgh marinas damaged after barges break loose

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The barge crane Oyster Bay and other contracted salvors remove bridge wreckage from the Patapsco River to reopen the shipping channel in Baltimore, April 10, 2024. Coast Guard photo.

As Baltimore debris removed, NTSB focused on Dali electrical equipment

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The Angus R. Cooper II, a new 6,000 hp, Tier 4 z-drive tugboat constructed at Blakeley BoatWorks in Mobile, Ala., has joined Crescent Towing's for ship assist operations in the Port of Savannah, Ga. Cooper Group photo.

Crescent Towing’s new Tier 4 tug joins Port of Savannah operations

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Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, recently delivered the Chelsea, the first of the Boston Pilots’ two Chesapeake-class pilot boats undergoing a comprehensive refit. Gladding Hearn photo.

Gladding-Hearn refits Boston Pilots’ boat for ‘another 20 years’

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American Cruise Lines has two more new small ships coming in 2025, the American Patriot and American Pioneer. The ships will be built at the company’s affiliated shipyard, Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Maryland. ACL image.

American Cruise Lines adding two new ships in 2025

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The CMA CGM Marco Polo transits the Kill Van Kull under the Bayonne Bridge inbound to Port Elizabeth, N.J., in 2021. The CMA CGM vessel APL Qingdao lost propulsion outbound in the channel April 6 and had to be escorted to anchorage. Port Authority photo.

Container ship lost propulsion outbound in New York

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President Biden and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, right, after Biden toured the Key Bridge wreckage April 5 in Baltimore. C-Span video image.

Biden calls on Congress to commit to Baltimore port spending

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Record-wam Atlantic sea surface temperatures are "the optimum condition for a busy hurricane season," says Philip Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. National Tropical Weather Conference v

Hurricane forecasters foresee ‘extremely active’ 2024 season

Kirk Moore

The tug Eric McAllister helped guide the Dali out of the dock and then left the ship when it was safely inside the channel. McAllister Towing and Transportation photo

Tug escort rules in ports may be reviewed after the Key Bridge collapse

Pamela Glass

A dead female North Atlantic right whale found March 30 floating 50 miles offshore east of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Va. Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute photo/NOAA permit #24359.

Right whale off Virginia 40th death since 2017

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