Houston Port officials reach out to Baltimore after fatal bridge collapse as we examine safety measures here [Video]

HOUSTON – Houston Port officials have reached out to their counterparts in Baltimore to offer help following the fatal bridge collapse on Tuesday. They are also talking with us about what’s being done to keep such a disaster from happening here.

One major project has been underway for several years to widen the Houston Ship Channel, which has over 230,000 boats, barges and ships moving through every year. There are entire teams of people and organizations working to make sure it’s done safely.

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We visited the U.S. Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Service center, just one of several layers of risk management.

“It’s almost like an Air Traffic Control, but we’re not directing them, unless we have to,” explains U.S. Coast Guard Captain of Port, Captain Keith Donohue.

The workers in Vessel Traffic Service talk directly to ships’ captains and tug pilots …