The ship was in the control of two port pilots at the time of the accident.
Every bridge with central pylons gets designed to withstand a hit from a “design ship” under a range of circumstances.
Baltimore is the 18th largest US port and the bridge is only about 50 yrs old … I am pretty sure there were 300m long container ships in service at the time of bridge design.
There will be design and maintenance investigations as to why th3 bridge collapsed so easily.
