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Port Administration (MPA), Ports America
Chesapeake completed development of
a 50-foot container berth at the terminal
in January. With the new and improved
Seagirt Berth 4 in its arsenal, Baltimore
becomes one of only two East Coast ports
able to handle larger ships that will be
making their way through the Panama
Canal once a $5.25 billion canal expansion
is completed around the end of 2015.
“The arrival of these huge cranes is
a momentous day for our state and for
the Port of Baltimore,” said Governor
Martin O’Malley. “When we signed a
50-year agreement with our private sector
partner, Ports America Chesapeake, in
2010, we did so with an eye on growing
good-paying, blue collar jobs at our Port.
Our partnership is one that will ensure
the future of the Port of Baltimore and
provide stability for Port workers.”
Once the cranes are assembled and
go through the appropriate electrical
preparations and testing, training will be
provided to members of the International
Longshoremen’s Association, making certain
that everything is ready to go.
Getting the cranes here from Shanghai,
China, where they were manufactured by
ZPMC, required what Schmidt called “a sig-
nificant amount of logistics coordination.”
The move involved “engineers, quality
control personnel, vendors and others located
in Maryland, New York, New Jersey, California
and China all working together to provide the
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