{"id":640033,"date":"2024-03-30T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=640033"},"modified":"2024-03-30T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:47:03","slug":"baltimore-bridge-collapse-us-concerned-about-impact-on-immediate-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/baltimore-bridge-collapse-us-concerned-about-impact-on-immediate-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore bridge collapse: US concerned about impact on immediate region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have expressed concern about the implications rippling beyond the immediate region after a key bridge harbouring America&#8217;s largest vehicle handling port collapsed in Baltimore when a cargo ship crashed into it, even as experts predicted repercussions to be &#8220;modest and mainly localised&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The 2.6km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore was destroyed after Dali, a 984-foot cargo ship bound for Sri Lanka, collided against a bridge column in the early hours of Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The collapse of the bridge has indefinitely halted the flow of ships in and out of Baltimore Port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have expressed concern about the implications rippling beyond the immediate region after a key bridge harbouring America&#8217;s largest vehicle handling port collapsed in Baltimore when a cargo ship crashed into it, even as experts predicted repercussions to be &#8220;modest and mainly localised&#8221;. The 2.6km-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore was destroyed after Dali, a 984-foot cargo ship bound for Sri Lanka, collided against a bridge column in the early hours of Tuesday. The collapse of the bridge has indefinitely halted the flow of ships in and out of Baltimore Port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}