An explosion rocked a cargo ship near Baltimore Harbor Monday evening, sending emergency crews scrambling to respond near the same location where the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last year.

Newsweek reached out to the Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD) via email on Monday for comment.

Why It Matters

The explosion near the Francis Scott Key Bridge site raises immediate maritime safety concerns in one of the East Coast's busiest shipping corridors.

Federal investigators announced in March that the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) failed to complete a crucial vulnerability assessment that could have identified the Francis Scott Key Bridge as being at high risk of collapse from a ship strike well before last year's disaster.

According to the National Transportation

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