Before you know it, exactly 20 days have passed since the Baltimore Bridge, the choke point of the superpower's major major port on the east coast, collapsed. Not to mention how to rebuild the waterway, to what extent has the situation of re-opening the most critical waterway been carried out in just one on-site rescue and disaster relief? According to the live broadcast of the locals, as expected, the current rescue progress is child's play, and it is definitely a real modern joke! This is because compared with the scene at the time after the 100,000-ton container ship crashed into the three main spans of the sea-crossing bridge 20 days ago; up to now, that is, the scene taken by a drone 20 days later, it is not an expert-level image analyst who is not able to see any concrete progress at all! The most conspicuous cargo ship at the scene that caused the accident is still motionless in its place; while the three parts of the steel bridge that have collapsed are still half-sunk and half-exposed above the water, and there is still no progress in cleaning up the entire waterway. Of course, to say a little subtle,
None of the changes have been, nor are they entirely in line with the facts. The management of the port and the rescue unit of Baltimore City have also done some specific work. For example, about 15 to 20 workers have been sent to the foredeck of the ship, and in a "manual" way, hundreds of pieces of concrete have fallen and smashed onto the front surface of the ship. These pieces of concrete themselves were part of the road pavement on the bridge before it collapsed. But anyone with a little IQ knows that purely manual cleaning can only clean up the smallest scattered pieces on the surface of the ship, while in fact, the bridge wreckage that smashed down and completely crushed the giant ship is very huge and heavy. Each piece is more than 100 tons, and it is a mixture of steel and concrete wreckage, with a total weight estimated at at least two or three thousand tons, and it is expected that it will not be finished for 100 years with no more than 20 workers cleaning it by hand. The bigger problem is that it can't be gnawed at all! On the day of the accident,
The authors predict that it will take eight months to clear the bridge and the freighter that caused the accident and re-clear the main channel at the earliest. Because 20 days have passed. In fact, there are only no more than 20 workers who "move bricks" purely manually at the scene, and in the face of the total tonnage of the wreckage that is no less than 150,000 tons, when will this be moved? In fact, the most needed for the rescue and aftermath of this kind of accident site is a 10,000-ton or even 15,000-ton super crane ship. The collapsed steel girder part of the three large spans can be hoisted to a large flatbed barge in a few days, so that it is difficult to clear the channel quickly. Restore throughput to the Port of Baltimore quickly. However, the 10,000-to-18,000-ton super ship crane is only owned by a large country in East Asia, and even if it is willing to help, how to sail to the North Atlantic is a natural obstacle that cannot be ignored. You can also settle for the next best, that is, to dispatch a secondary ship crane of 4,000 tons to 5,000 tons. After cutting the bridge, the unit weight becomes smaller,
The wreckage was hoisted separately onto the barge. The problem is that the number of superpowers owned by the 4000-class ship crane is also zero. The two 4,000-ton ship cranes used to salvage the 5,500-ton frigate sunk by the Norwegian Navy a few years ago were also exported by a major country and belonged to Europe and the United States. The current superpower can only summon these 2 ships remotely!