A year after a giant containership got stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week and disrupted global trade for months, another Evergreen Marine Corp. vessel has run aground, this time near the U.S. capital.
March 14, 2022Port of Baltimore
Business, Logistics 
The ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay, the Ever Forward, is owned by Evergreen Marine Corp. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News)
Containership Ever Forward Stuck in Chesapeake Bay
The ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay, the Ever Forward, is owned by Evergreen Marine Corp. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News) Government, Business, Logistics, Top 50 
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Port of Baltimore Announces Expansion
Port of Baltimore via FacebookThe Port of Baltimore on March 7 announced it is expanding container business at its Seagirt Marine Terminal as the Israeli-based ZIM Shipping Line will begin calls at the facility this summer.
March 8, 2022 Business, Equipment 
A containership unloads at the Port of Baltimore. (Dan Ronan/Transport Topics)
Port of Baltimore Gets Grant to Upgrade Diesel Equipment
A containership unloads at the Port of Baltimore. (Dan Ronan/Transport Topics)The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore announced it received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the port’s Diesel Equipment Upgrade Program, which replaces older cargo-handling equipment and dray trucks with newer, cleaner and more efficient models.
February 11, 2022 Government, Business, Logistics 
The Gunde Maersk docks at the Port of Baltimore. (Maryland Port Administration)
A Rare Port Success Story Is Chance for Biden to Tout Plans
The Gunde Maersk docks at the Port of Baltimore. (Maryland Port Administration)President Joe Biden will use the Baltimore port as a backdrop Nov. 10 in his campaign to promote the $550 billion infrastructure legislation Congress cleared last week, $17 billion of which would go to ports.
November 10, 2021 Government, Business, Logistics 
Workers look on as a crane dumps sludge dredged from the Chesapeake Bay Navigation Channel at Port of Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal. (Dan Ronan/Transport Topics)
Port of Baltimore Dredging, Expansion Seen as Boon to Economy
Workers look on as a crane dumps sludge dredged from the Chesapeake Bay Navigation Channel at Port of Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal. (Dan Ronan/Transport Topics) Port of Baltimore officials say with the vast jump in imported cargo and tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements, the sprawling facility on the Chesapeake Bay will see rapid growth the next several years.
March 30, 2021 Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics, TCA 
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Crane Simulator Trains Baltimore Longshoremen Without Disrupting Dock Operations
Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore bought a $500,000 simulator this year to train crane operators at the Port of Baltimore without affecting the day-to-day loading and unloading of cargo.
October 28, 2019 Government, Business, Logistics 
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Port of Baltimore Sets Record for TEUs in a Month
Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe Port of Baltimore continues to reach milestones, this time setting a monthly record in July when the facility handled 98,529 20-foot-equivalent containers.
September 30, 2019 Government, Business, Safety, TCA 
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Proposal Advances to Deposit Port of Baltimore Dredge Spoils on Chesapeake Bay’s Barren, James Islands
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg NewsA proposal is advancing to deposit dredge spoils from the Port of Baltimore onto two eroding Chesapeake Bay islands.
August 23, 2019 Government, Business, Logistics 
A CSX Transportation inspection train carrying Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan emerges from the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore on Oct. 24, 2016. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Maryland, CSX and Port of Baltimore Cooperate to Rebuild Critical Tunnel
A CSX Transportation inspection train carrying Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan emerges from the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore on Oct. 24, 2016. (Patrick Semansky/AP)The Port of Baltimore and officials for the state of Maryland as well as railroad CSX Corp. are seeking federal help to rebuild the nearly 125-year-old Howard Street Tunnel, which, they say, is symptomatic of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and is significantly slowing freight traffic.
June 17, 2019 Business, Logistics 
Tradepoint Atlantic's Sparrow’s Point Warehouse in Baltimore by Dan Ronan/Transport Topics.
Baltimore’s Tradepoint Atlantic Intermodal Facility Transforms Old Bethlehem Steel Site
Tradepoint Atlantic's Sparrow’s Point Warehouse in Baltimore by Dan Ronan/Transport Topics.In 2014, Tradepoint Atlantic bought the waterfront Sparrows Point in Baltimore site for a bargain-basement price of $110 million. It’s now being turned into what will be more than a $2 billion multimodal facility serving the East Coast and Midwest.
June 6, 2019