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The Port of Baltimore
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Wheeler said. “With the support of the
International Longshoremen’s Association
and the Maryland Port Administration,
Project Stevedoring has secured long-term
contracts for road salt and copper slag.”
Richard L. Schiappacasse with MPA
Trade Development noted that Wheeler’s
expertise and determination heightened
the team’s ability to get North Locust Point
kick-started. “We owe it to his innovative
approach — his ability to think outside the
box,” Schiappacasse said. “He recognized
North Locust Point for the asset that it could
be, and then very quickly — but also safely
and in an environmentally correct manner —
made the bulk-product operation happen.”
Wheeler explained that road salt end-
users are pleased to have a new terminal
to pick up their loads on the south side of
the Baltimore Harbor, “avoiding the harbor
tunnel and the congestion at other salt
terminals.” In addition, the copper slag is
part of a global recycling project, arriving
as a byproduct of Japan’s copper smelting
process. “It used to go to a landfill,”
Wheeler said. “Our customer brings it to
the U.S., where it is used in cement and as
grit for sand blasting.”
Tramp cargoes of steel beams and
rebar are also being off-loaded at North
Locust Point.
In all, more than 220,000 tons of cargo
were handled at the 90-acre terminal over
the last half of 2011.
“Once again, North Locust Point
Marine Terminal is hosting ship after ship,”
Wheeler said. “Thousands of man-hours
are being logged both for stevedoring
operations and truck loading.”
As Schiappacasse noted, “What’s going
on now at North Locust Point just goes to
show what can happen when you take a
creative approach to a situation and put it
in the hands of quality laborers.”
KATHY BERGREN SMITH
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