A ship moves under the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, on the day U.S. President Joe Biden travels to Washington, U.S., March 24, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
(Reuters) - The collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge has highlighted what engineers say is an urgent need to better protect the piers holding up spans over shipping channels as the size of cargo ships has grown in recent decades.
Federal authorities continue an investigation into why a massive cargo ship lost power and crashed into a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, bringing down the structure and killing six workers who had been filling potholes atop it.
