Coast Guard wants to clarify the rules on when mariners must report bridge hits

摘要

Ever since Americas golden age of trains - when railroad owners purposely built bridges that were tricky for mariners to travel under -the issue of bridge transits has been a headache for the maritime industry.Now, the U.S. Coast Guard is attempting to span the divide between mariners and bridge owners. Coast Guard officials on the East Coast are asking captains to report unsafe bridge conditions on their waterways.