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The Port of Baltimore
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November/December 2013
Soundings
BILL MCALLEN
CARGO
Trans American
Completes Heavy
Lifting in Canton
I
n order to handle a heavy-lift
project involving large machinery
manufactured in Italy and shipped
through the Port of Baltimore, Trans
American Trucking Service, Inc.
brought in its big, red trucks.
The cargo, which arrived on a charter
ship at Canton Stevedoring in mid-
November, consisted of one 198,500-
pound piece, two 83-foot-long pieces
averaging 140,000 pounds each, an
88,000-pound crate, a 57,000-pound
crate, and several permit and legal loads.
Trans American’s trucks transported
the machinery to the Timken Company,
a Canton, Ohio-based manufacturer and
marketer of mechanical components and
high-performance steel products.
Trans American’s heavy-lift operations
department, based in New Jersey, handled
the heavy-lift items, while the company’s
Baltimore office, located just five miles from
the Port, handled all of the general cargo.
“Several East Coast and Great Lakes
ports were considered, but ultimately
Baltimore was chosen for reasons of
more favorable door-to-door costs and
expediency,” said Tom Jensen, Trans
American Trucking Service’s Director,
International Projects.
Jensen added that Trans American
relies on “the great cooperation and
service we have come to expect from the
Port of Baltimore” to bring projects in on
budget and on time.
