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The Port of Baltimore
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January/February 2014
BY THE NUMBERS
Handling Dredged
Materials to Maintain
Shipping Lanes
T
he Maryland Port
Administration (MPA)
announced in January that it
is seeking ideas
from the private
sector about
how to convert
material dredged
from Baltimore
Harbor shipping
channels into an
environmentally
safe aggregate used in the
construction/building industries.
“Without properly maintained
shipping channels, the huge ships
of today and supersized ones of
tomorrow could not safely travel
to and from the Port,” said MPA
Executive Director
James J. White
.
“By seeking the expertise from
private industry, we can potentially
increase our [dredged material]
placement options by creating
an environmentally beneficial
product.”
NEWSMAKERS
Former U.S. Deputy Transportation
Secretary Enters Private Sector
J
ohn D. Porcari
, who served as Maryland
Transportation Secretary from 2007-
2009, resigned his position as U.S.
Deputy Secretary of Transportation on Dec.
27 to go to work in the private sector. Porcari,
54, actually served two stints as Maryland’s
Transportation Secretary, first for the
Glendening Administration and then in January
2007 as part of the O’Malley Administration.
Porcari has joined the multinational
engineering and design firm of Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Soundings
ith
nal
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n
50
The depth
(in feet) of
the shipping
channel that
allows the Port
of Baltimore to be one of only two
ports on the U.S. East Coast currently
able to handle large, super-post-
Panamax ships coming through the
Panama Canal.
The nickname for a public-private
partnership such as the one being explored
by the MPA for taking material away
from the Cox Creek Dredged Material
Containment Facility and converting it into
a lightweight building aggregate.
P3
that make up the Cox
Creek Dredged Material
Containment Facility,
which receives about
500,000 cubic yards of
dredged material annually.
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ACRES
2015
The year when construction of
the expanded Panama Canal
is expected to be completed.
cubic yards of
material that must
be dredged from
Baltimore Harbor
each year.
1.5 MILLION
