Baltimore Port Fully Reopens Shipping Channel After Bridge Collapse

Crews removed 50,000 tons of steel and concrete from the river bed.

A steel truss from the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge that was pinning the container ship Dali in place was detached from the ship using a controlled detonation of explosives in the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 13, 2024. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Port of Baltimore’s main shipping channel fully reopened this week, more than two months after a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The reopening on June 10 means full-capacity cargo traffic can resume through the waterway, which has been restored to its original dimensions of 700 feet wide and 50 feet deep.