BALTIMORE — Engineers are contemplating the possibility of clearing a single lane of Baltimore’s shipping channel in an attempt to get shipping moving back in to the city’s port before all wreckage from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge is removed.
US Army Corps of Engineers Col. Estee S. Pichasin said the north edge of the channel opposite from the south side where the damaged container ship Dali is stranded may provide an opportunity to move debris that is not complicated by being tangled with the ship.
“As we get deeper into the channel on that far side, and clear deeper wreckage from the far side of the channel, were hoping to be able to traffic larger vessels through, said Pichasin on Wednesday.
The Dali blocks only a portion of the 50-foot deep channel on one side. The channel is wide enough for two ships to pass, if debris is …
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