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\u00a0Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore\u2019s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water on Saturday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, Maryland and U.S. officials said, the first step in a complex effort to reopen the city\u2019s blocked port.
\nThe steel truss bridge collapsed\u00a0early on Tuesday morning, killing six road workers, when a massive container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon. Much of the span crashed into the Patapsco River, blocking the Port of Baltimore\u2019s shipping channel.
\nMaryland Governor Wes Moore told a news conference that a section of the bridge\u2019s steel superstructure north of the crash site would be cut into a piece that could be lifted by crane onto a barge and brought to the nearby Tradepoint Atlantic site at Sparrows Point.
\u201cThis will eventually allow us to open up a temporary restricted channel that will help us to get more vessels in the water around the site of the collapse,\u201d Moore said.
\nHe declined to provide a timeline for this portion of the clearance work. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to take hours,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to take days, but once we complete this phase of the work, we can move more tugs and more barges and more boats into the area to accelerate our recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Workers will not yet attempt to remove a crumpled part of the bridge\u2019s superstructure that is resting on the bow of the Dali, the 984 foot Singapore flagged container ship\u00a0that brought down the bridge. Moore said it was unclear when the ship could be moved, but said that its hull, while damaged, is \u201cintact.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is a remarkably complex operation,\u201d Moore said of the effort to clear bridge debris and open the Port of Baltimore to shipping traffic.
\nThe bodies of\u00a0two workers\u00a0who were repairing the bridge deck at the time of the disaster have been recovered, but Moore said efforts to recover four others presumed dead remain suspended because conditions are too dangerous for divers to work amid too much debris.
\nCoast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath told reporters that teams from the Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy\u2019s salvage arm and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the debris from the Patapsco River\u2019s deep-draft shipping channel would have to be removed before the Dali could be moved.
\nSaturday\u2019s operation involves cutting a piece just north of that channel and lifting it with a 160-ton marine crane onto a barge. A larger,\u00a01,000 tonne crane\u00a0also is at the bridge site.
\nThe piece will be brought to Tradepoint Atlantic, the site of the former Bethlehem Steel Mill which is being developed into a distribution center for companies including Amazon.com\u00a0(AMZN.O), opens new tab, Home Depot\u00a0(HD.N), opens new tab\u00a0and Volkswagen\u00a0(VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab. The facility\u2019s port, which sits on the Chesapeake Bay side of the collapsed bridge, is fully operational.
\nTradepoint Atlantic did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the company\u2019s role in the salvage operation.
\nMaryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefield said that Tradepoint officials had agreed to allow other ships to unload vehicles at the facility\u2019s deepwater dock to be prepared for shipment to dealers.
\nIn Oklahoma, authorities said on Saturday they shut down a portion of U.S. highway 59 near Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over the Arkansas River. There were no immediate reports of injuries, according to media reports, and officials would be conducting inspections of the bridge.
\nFive days after the tragedy in Maryland, the jobs of some 15,000 people whose work revolves around daily port operation are on hold. While logistics experts say that other East Coast ports should be able to handle container traffic, Baltimore is the largest U.S. port for \u201croll-on, roll-off\u201d vehicle imports and exports of farm and construction equipment.
\nU.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said the Small Business Administration has approved the state\u2019s request for a disaster declaration that allows small firms affected by the disaster to apply for emergency low-interest loans of up to $2 million through the end of 2024.
\nThe federal government on Thursday awarded Maryland an\u00a0initial $60 million\u00a0in emergency funds to clear debris and begin rebuilding the Key Bridge, an extraordinarily fast disbursement. President Joe Biden has pledged that the federal government would cover all costs of removing the debris and rebuilding the bridge.
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