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"Cargo ships have gotten larger over the decades, with many easily weighing more than 100,000 tons.

.... experts say the #Baltimore collapse does not expose significant vulnerabilities in the major bridges near ports across #California, which has the two busiest in the nation: the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which handle about 40% of U.S. container imports from Asia"

(for more on how LA leaned into scale, see my book #OilBeach !)

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-26/are-californias-big-bridges-safe-from-cargo-ships

#shipping #ports