Still to be recovered are four of the six workers who died when Baltimore’s largest bridge It collapsed after the impact of a cargo ship last Tuesday. But, with the amount of debris there is, the search efforts are paralyzed, since it is almost impossible to access them.

Besides, the crucial importance of the canal for maritime and land trafficmakes cleaning the area and doing it as quickly as possible the top priority for the authorities.

But the work, as Maryland Governor Wes Moore assured, will not be easy: “This is an incredibly complex job and our deadlines will be long“.

The first thing is to remove the steel frame and the bulk of the remains, which will take at least a month and will allow partial circulation of the ships.

David Ostariz Falo, civil engineer, explained in laSexta that the work will take “a minimum of weeks or months. In the end they are high-risk and highly complex jobs. Even though it’s already on the ground and looks like it’s already static, it’s still an unstable structure.”

The second thing will be to stabilize the ship’s containers in order to move it from the area and restore two-way circulation through the canal. And finally, it would be necessary to remove the steel, cement and road remains that rest at the bottom of the river.

The army, which will be in charge of the operation, is already mobilizing resources to carry out the complex cleaning of the canal. They will have at least three cargo ships, more than a thousand of their engineers and the largest crane on the east coast.