BALTIMORE — Engineering studies commissioned by the state of Maryland in the early 2000s considered the possibility of a “ship impact” at the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The leader of the Senate budget panel endorsed a recent emergency funding request from the White House specific to repairing a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore this year.

U.S. ports posted a mixed bag of results for May, with certain facilities seeing volume gains while some of the nation’s largest saw container traffic decline.

The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia, three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Key Bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse.

BALTIMORE — Authorities anticipate commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore will soon return to normal levels since the channel fully reopened earlier this week.

BALTIMORE — The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland renewed calls for colleagues to endorse emergency aid for rebuilding the Port of Baltimore area and the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The Army Corps of Engineers now expects to have the full Federal Channel into Port of Baltimore open by June 10 at the latest, a slightly later target than their original timeline of late May.

BALTIMORE — Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are assessing the country’s bridges to determine the likelihood of a disaster like the one that collapsed the Key Bridge.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Georgia Ports Authority reported May 21 that April was its busiest month ever for automobile shipments at the Port of Brunswick.