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The Port of Baltimore
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Ship Agents And Brokers
Baltimore
“your HOST on the waterfront since 1923”
2200 Broening Highway, Suite 102
Baltimore, Maryland 21224
Telephone: (410) 633-4666
Fax: (410) 633-2993
Telex: 6734714 HOSTMD
e-mail: mdops@tparkerhost.com
Website: www.tparkerhost.com
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Gov. Martin O’Malley toured the facility
in February and told workers there, “GM is
now the No. 1 auto maker because they’re
building cleaner, greener automobiles,
and a lot of that is happening right here.”
The plant currently employs 200, but
when expansion is completed in 2013 that
number is expected to double.
The campus expansion includes a solar
array that will provide nine percent of the
facility’s power. “We believe the future of
sustainable transportation is electrically
driven vehicles and this facility will help
us maintain a leadership position within
this category,” said Mike Robinson, GM’s
Vice President for Environment, Energy
and Safety Policy. “It’s fitting that green
‘motors of the future’ are being built at a
facility well recognized for ongoing efforts
to reduce its environmental impact.”
Within a few years, it is likely that GM
electric vehicles exported from the Port of
Baltimore may have had their engine built
in Baltimore County, starting a new chapter
to a long relationship.
from every aspect of auto handling at the
Port, including stevedores, processors
and manufacturers. At the monthly
meetings, any problems are addressed
quickly. “With QCHAT there is a high
level of accountability that keeps the
standard very high here,” said Johnson.
General Motors’ history with the Port
of Baltimore actually goes back to 1935. It
was in the early days of automaking when
the Flint, Michigan, company opened a
factory near the Dundalk Marine Terminal.
That facility closed in 2005 after 70 years
of operations.
Today, GM’s Baltimore location is in
White Marsh. The facility is not a tradi-
tional factory, but an ultra-modern campus
making two-mode hybrid engines and
heavy duty transmissions. Last year, the
company began a $269.5 million expan-
sion that will open next year. The new
plant will make electric motors for plugin
and hybrid vehicles. GM is the first major
American automaker to commit to making
its own components for electric vehicles.
WORLDWIDE:
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202,000 employees at
158 facilities
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Sold in 120 countries
BALTIMORE:
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220 employees producing
transmissions and high-
speed torque converters
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1.3 million transmissions
produced since opening
in 2000
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Will produce electric
motors and electrification
components for plug-in and
hybrid vehicles
At a Glance
