The chief ag negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says the first container ship has made it through the Port of Baltimore.
A bridge collapse at the end of March has slowed the traffic going in and out of the port and Doug McKalip says “we had an 11-foot channel come online about two weeks after the accident and a 14-foot channel south of the wreckage come online and now, a 35-foot channel just four weeks after the ship hit the bridge.”
McKalip says the goal is to open a deeper shipping channel for two-way vessel traffic to 50-feet by the end of May.
