The Bridge collapse disrupted the shipping traffic of the port of Baltimore

A 948-foot container ship smashed into a four-lane bridge in the port in darkness early on Tuesday, 26 Mar, causing it to collapse; cars and people fell  into the river below.

Port traffic was suspended until further notice, Maryland transportation authorities said.

. Maersk said it was skipping Baltimore port from all its services due to the damage to the Bridge until it is safe for passage through this area .The container ship Dali, which collided with the bridge on Tuesday, was chartered by Maersk at the time of the incident in Baltimore.

“While Baltimore is not one of the largest U.S. East Coast ports, it still imports and exports more than one million containers each year, so there is the potential for this to cause significant disruption to supply chains,” said Emily Stausbøll, market analyst at Xeneta, an ocean freight shipping rate benchmarking and intelligence platform.