I'm stunned it doesn't appear anyone is operating from any sort of disaster planning script. If I ran a port like that I'd have disaster plans and analysis in place for all manner of scenarios like:

• Ship sinking in channel blocking port
• Ship catching fire/exploding in port
• Toxic cargo
• Quarantine procedures for crew infected with unknown or known illness
• Bridge collapse
• Train derailment
• Crane collapse

They should be operating off a script knowing exactly what to do and a timeline for it. This whole thing looks like a shitshow.

It's not like this is some tiny unimportant infrastructure. The minute this happened DOT should have had personnel on route to setup an incident command center and begin executing the disaster plan. They should have had a timeline for re-opening the port the same day this happened and the wreckage should have already been being worked on to remove it.

Plans should have been in place decades ago to move port workers to other eastern seaboard ports with the goal to run those ports 24 hours a day to pick up the slack for this. Every major importer/exporter should have been part of that planning and they should had spent today executing contracts for rail and truck shipping of their goods to the next nearest ports. This isn't difficult stuff at all.

I'm stunned it doesn't appear anyone is operating from any sort of disaster planning script. If I ran a port like that I'd have disaster plans and analysis in place for all manner of scenarios like:

• Ship sinking in channel blocking port
• Ship catching fire/exploding in port
• Toxic cargo
• Quarantine procedures for crew infected with unknown or known illness
• Bridge collapse
• Train derailment
• Crane collapse

They should be operating off a script knowing exactly what to do and a timeline for it. This whole thing looks like a shitshow.

It's not like this is some tiny unimportant infrastructure. The minute this happened DOT should have had personnel on route to setup an incident command center and begin executing the disaster plan. They should have had a timeline for re-opening the port the same day this happened and the wreckage should have already been being worked on to remove it.

Plans should have been in place decades ago to move port workers to other eastern seaboard ports with the goal to run those ports 24 hours a day to pick up the slack for this.