IMC, Dunavant Take On Challenges After Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Under and over a bridge are the two ways logistics companies used the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Now that the bridge has collapsed, short-term costs are focused on container ships blocked from the terminal, and long-term costs are focused on trucks having to find alternative routes.

With long and complicated supply chains, fragile to politics, natural disaster, and accidents, logistic companies are used to dealing with a crisis. The bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore on March 26 tested the East Coast supply chain, and under pressure, Memphis-based logistics companies are finding intermodal solutions in the short term and looking to innovations in the long term.

Since the collapse, Memphis-based companies IMC and Dunavant have diverted cargo to other terminals along the East Coast, with Norfolk, Virginia, taking on the bulk of the volume.