BALTIMORE — The first of 11 ships trapped for a month behind the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge left the Port of Baltimore Thursday using an alternate shipping channel that opened earlier in the morning. The Balsa 94, a cargo ship, sailed just before 10 a.m. with the help of two tugboats, passing chunks of the fallen steel bridge and the still grounded Dali freighter that crashed .
Nearly two weeks after a cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse, one of the busiest ports on the East Coast remains largely cut off from the seas. The reach of the Port of Baltimore is vast, and it could lose an estimated $15 million per day while closed. In the meantime, two smaller, temporary channels have opened, with the Army Corps of Engineers aiming to .
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