By Helen Regan, Kathleen Magramo, Antoinette Radford, Alisha Ebrahimji, Maureen Chowdhury, Rachel Ramirez, Elise Hammond, Aditi Sangal, Tori B. Powell, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Kathleen Magramo, CNN
From CNN's Antoinette Radford
Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said eight people were on the Key Bridge at the time of its collapse.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference, Wiedefeld said two of those people are accounted for — one is in hospital, one is okay, and the search is continuing for the other six.
From CNN's Maureen Chowdhury
The Francis Scott Key Bridge was "fully up to code" and had no structural issues, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said during news conference Tuesday.
The bridge collapsed after a container ship collided into it early Tuesday.
From CNN's Antoinette Radford
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the preliminary investigation into the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore "points to an accident."
"The preliminary investigation points to an accident. We haven't seen any credible evidence of a terrorist attack," he told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.
Moore said he recognized "many of us are hurting right now" and said authorities are working to gather details on what happened.
Authorities are holding a news conference after a container ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing the bridge to collapse and sending people into the frigid water.
Rescuers continue to search for people in the water.
The National Transportation Safety Board is launching a "go team" to investigate the Baltimore bridge collapse.
According to the NTSB, a "go team" consists of technical experts who can solve "complex transportation safety problems" and specialists across the agency on rotational duty assignment to respond to the scene of accident as quickly as possible.
Team members should be reachable 24 hours a day, according to the agency's website.
From CNN's Holmes Lybrand
In a statement Tuesday, the FBI’s Baltimore field office said there was “no specific and credible information to suggest any ties to terrorism at this time" regarding the bridge collapse.
From CNN's Hanna Ziady
Danish shipping company Maersk chartered the Singapore-flagged container ship, DALI, that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, Maersk told CNN.
The DALI can carry 10,000 20-foot shipping containers, and was operating on a route between Baltimore and Asia as part of an alliance between Maersk and MSC, according to Xeneta shipping market analyst Emily Stausbøll.
Maersk is one of the world’s largest container shipping companies, moving everything from apparel and car parts to electronics and heavy machinery on board more than 700 vessels around the globe.
The carrier serves more than 100,000 businesses and calls on over 500 ports in more than 130 countries, according to its website. It moves more than 12 million containers every year.
Maersk is among the container shipping companies that have suspended transits through the Red Sea and Suez Canal because of ongoing attacks on vessels, including its own, by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
It posted record annual profits in 2022, riding high on elevated shipping prices and strong demand for goods, particularly in the first half of the year.
But it laid off 10,000 workers last year as demand slumped and freight prices plunged, pushing revenues sharply lower.
From CNN's Kevin Liptak
There are "no indications" the collision of a container ship that resulted in a major bridge collapse in Baltimore was an intentional act, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday.
"We are closely monitoring the tragic situation unfolding as a result of a containership colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Our thoughts are with the families of the missing and injured," Mayorkas wrote on social media.
Mayorkas also noted that the US Coast Guard, which is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, was on scene "along with our state and local partners and is actively involved in search and rescue operations this morning."
From CNN's Sahar Akbarzai and Lucas Lilieholm
The container ship, DALI, had been inspected 27 times since its building in 2015, and had two “deficiencies" since then, according to records from the Electronic Quality Shipping Information System (Equasis).
In June of 2023, in San Antonio, Chile, the Chilean authorities gave the DALI a “deficiency” for “propulsion and auxiliary machinery — gauges, thermometers, etc,” according to Equasis records. And, in November of 2016, in Antwerp, Belgium, the DALI was given another “deficiency” for "structural conditions” described as “hull damage impairing seaworthiness," due to it being holed, Equasis records show.
DALI was involved in an incident in 2016 in the Port of Antwerp, port officials confirmed to CNN.
The last inspection the DALI had was on September 9, 2023, when it inspected by the United States Coast Guard in New York, New York, Equasis reports. No deficiencies were noted from that inspection, according to the database.
