Cargo Ship Strikes Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Between Philadelphia and New Jersey: Draw Span Stuck Open for Hours Before Reopening
At about 1:15 p.m. on November 12, a cargo ship struck the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge over the Delaware River, which links Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Palmyra, New Jersey. The bridge's draw span was open for marine traffic at the time of the collision. Pennsylvania state Representative Ed Neilson said the bridge was left unable to close, causing a major backup on the Philadelphia side, and that no injuries had been reported.
The U.S. Coast Guard identified the vessel as the Strategic Alliance, a 591-foot, Singapore-flagged cargo ship built in 2013. The ship was moored at a Kinder Morgan facility in Bristol, Pennsylvania, where a Coast Guard inspection team was on site; the cause of the strike remains under investigation.
The draw span came back down after another vessel passed through, and the Burlington County Bridge Commission police said the bridge reopened to traffic on the evening of November 12 with one lane closed. The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge is 3,659 feet long, carries Route 73 in three lanes, and can carry as many as 76,200 vehicles a day, according to 2025 estimates. Opened in 1929, it was rated in 'fair' condition in the Federal Highway Administration's 2026 National Bridge Inventory.
(Source: Associated Press)
Source: Associated Press
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Photo: 图：横跨特拉华河的塔科尼-帕尔迈拉大桥（CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge over the Delaware River (CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
