A list of major US bridge collapses caused by ships and barges

A container ship struck a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to plunge into the river below. From 1960 to 2015, there were 35 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge collision, with a total of 342 people killed, according to a 2018 report from the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure. Eighteen of those collapses happened in the United States. A list of notable disasters involving ships or barges hitting bridges in the U.S.: March 20, 2009:…