Bringing workers back to Port of Baltimore▼

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Published 13d ago

Flanked by the wreckage of the Key Bridge on one side, and the damaged Dali on the other, the first commercial ship passed through a new limited access channel this morning. It would be followed by more, including a ship almost as large as the Dali itself, carrying cars and heavy equipment. "We're gonna see some containers coming from Norfolk on a barge, which is a big step in the right direction," Scott Cowan, president of the International Longshoremen's Association Local 333, a union that represents about 2,400 port workers, said. He had a much lighter weight on his shoulders today, compared to when we talked to him earlier this month. This was his warning just a few days after the bridge collapse: "That channel needs to be opened within the maximum of four weeks to get these ships back in here and get the men and women of the ILA back to work." Source