Massive cargo ship narrowly avoided 2 Mississippi River crashes in Louisiana in 2 days

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The U.S. Coast Guard has opened an investigation into an alleged "near-miss" with the Nashville Avenue Wharf in New Orleans late last month after a large cargo ship lost power.

The Coast Guard also confirmed this week that the probe would include allegations that the same ship, a British-flagged cargo ship named Anglo Marie Louise, was nearly hit by another ship, which had lost power, while it was docked in Convent the day before the New Orleans near-miss.

A Coast Guard spokesman, Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony Randisi, confirmed the investigations after The Advocate provided the agency with a social media post with detailed and animated vessel traffic data by a marine dispatcher for Moran Towing Corp.

"The Coast Guard understands the potential magnitude of both situations. We acknowledge they occurred, and we are looking into both instances as appropriate," Randisi wrote in response to questions from the newspaper late last week.

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Kind of a dumb question, but does the OT know if the bridges in Louisiana are designed to take a hit from these larger ocean freighters? I know the big bridges in Louisiana like the CCC, Huey P Long, and the I-10 bridge are designed to handle barge hits pretty regularly. They do get hit sometimes by those barges. And I know we've seen the superstructures or cranes on board smack the bottom of some of the bridge decks, but they get repaired without any major issue.

Would really suck to lose a busy bridge for a week for repairs (or worse...full replacement after a tragic, deadly accident).

They get 700-800' vessels as far north as Exxon in Baton Rouge pretty regularly. They certainly look big enough to inflict some serious damage.