Somebody has to pay for the salvage operations
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Usually by the ship owners. But that will have to wait until all the insurance lawsuits are settled. Some time 2-5 years later. Add another 2 years to remove the wreckage, and another 2-3 years to design and build a new bridge.
Best guess minimum would be 6 years or 2030 until harbor is open for business and the bridge for traffic.
The channel will be cleared in less than two weeks in order to reopen the port, and the bridge sections will be replaced in less than a year.
Ditto. I forgot to mention insurers.
The twin spans (New Orleans-Slidell) were damaged during Katrina...they got fixed quicker than that.
This looks like a much longer bridge though.
Actually no...the Twin Spans are longer. I wasn’t clear on how much had to be repaired though.