That will be fascinating to see indeed. On a lighter note, that raising might make the Bridge Run that much more challenging too.
Big picture after this event, I expect Baltimore’s port will still take ships regularly. But this will undoubtedly impact truck traffic through the Chesapeake corridor.
Will that result in more ships to Savannah? Will those trailers end up on 16/95? It’s all fascinating how this connects in the supply chain.
I would imagine Savannah will try to capture as much of this sudden demand as they can handle.
The port recently started work on tearing up the old Roll-on/Roll-off lots to convert the portion of the port nearest the bridge into container traffic.
Brunswick, just south of Savannah, is greatly expanding their RoRo capacity so pretty much all of that is heading there now while Savannah focuses on containers.
They're currently expanding I-16 to help handle the planned growth, but I would imagine a lot of it will be handled via rail, too.
It'll be interesting to watch play out.