Can you believe it? The beautiful country of the superpower, with countless cutting-edge technologies and the world's lighthouse that everyone aspires to, has not even cleaned up the wreckage of a collapsed bridge. On March 26, there was an accident in the United States in which a cargo ship crashed into the Baltimore Bridge. The bridge is the only way in and out of the Port of Baltimore, which is the ninth-busiest port in the United States, with an international cargo throughput of 52 million tons in 2023, worth more than $80 billion, creating more than 8,000 jobs and a very important economic lifeline for the region.
But such an important port was shut down by the collapsed bridge, you know, every day of delay is a loss of 15 million US dollars, you must hurry.
As a result, it has been one month since the accident, the ship has not been moved, and the port has not yet returned to normal. Although on April 19, Baltimore Port officials said that the third temporary passage was opened, but this temporary passage is 6.1 meters deep, with a horizontal gap of 91.4 meters and a vertical gap of 41.2 meters, but this passage can only meet about 15% of commercial activities.
The ship, called "Dali", is a large container ship with a length of 300 meters and a width of 48 meters, carrying a total of 4,679 containers. After the bridge collapsed, in order to remove the ship, the containers on the ship had to be removed, and as a result, only 120 containers have been removed, and it is estimated that another 140 containers will be removed to move the ship. No, let's just say, isn't this efficiency too slow, it's been almost 1 month, and you only moved 120 containers, no wonder the port hasn't opened yet.
In fact, the rescue efficiency of the United States, not only I am complaining, but even the Americans can't stand it, saying that if this was in China, the bridge would have been rebuilt a long time ago, and in the United States, you even boasted that after 1 month, a "passage" was reopened.
Of course, I think the Americans really misunderstood the rescue team, which is very efficient compared to the collapse of the building in Miami, Florida, after 16 days of search and rescue, and only 1 cat was rescued.
The United States also has a reason why the bridge collapsed and dredged the channel so slowly, they said that the wreckage of the bridge weighed 4,000 tons, and the wreckage of the bridge was so large that it had to be cut to the right size before they could be lifted away.
To this end, the United States has invested 10 tugboats, 9 barges, 8 salvage vessels, 7 floating cranes and 5 coast guard vessels, one of which is the largest floating crane on the east coast of the United States, which can lift 1,000 tons of heavy loads.
But, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said, "You look at the site and you realize what a huge task it is, this is an unprecedented rescue operation, and you need to plan out every detail."
But American netizens don't buy it, some people say that Maryland is a blue state, one of the basic plates of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party will definitely find a company full of diversity to do the job, that is, a company that employs blacks, transgender people, and LGTB+ groups.
Moreover, the Democratic Party takes environmental protection very seriously, so the removal of the bridge wreckage and reconstruction work also go through an environmental permit process. I really want to say a few words about this, that is, when the bridge wreckage was cleaned up, the non-profit organization Chesapeake Bay Foundation expressed its concern, what are you worried about? Don't look at Europe and the United States shouting about environmental protection and environmental protection every day, in fact, When they were developing, they were extremely unenvironmentally conscious, near this port, there used to be an Bethlehem steel plant, and they poured toxic waste directly into the Patapusko River and nearby streams, and these rivers went to the Chesapeake Bay, where the Baltimore Bridge is located, where the toxic substances settled, and for so many years, they also stabilized in the seabed. Now as soon as you clean up the river, won't the toxic sediment go into the sea again, what about the fish in the sea, what about the shrimp in the sea, what about the loaches in the sea, oh, there are no loaches in the sea.
In addition, it is spring, and the fish are spawning, and cleaning up the wreckage of the bridge will affect the reproduction of the fish.
Anyway, a bridge collapsed, and once again let us see, what is called American speed, what is called American rescue? Even if the 9th busiest port in the United States is blocked, they can't speed up the rescue, can you expect them to be able to rescue in the shortest possible time when other natural and man-made disasters occur? #头条创作挑战赛#