Page 21 - Port of Baltimore Magazine Oct/Sept 2013

hen Vice President Joe
Biden came to the Dundalk
Marine Terminal in early
September to announce
that the Port of Baltimore
had received $10 million
in federal grant money,
he wasn’t alone. Several members of Maryland’s
congressional delegation joined him at the podium to be
acknowledged for their hard work securing the funding,
which is just the latest show of Port support from the
delegation and the Obama-Biden Administration.
A few months earlier, President Barack Obama was
speaking before a crowd gathered at Ellicott Dredges’
South Baltimore headquarters when he, too, took a
moment to offer praise.
“All of your members of Congress, every single day,
are working, fighting on your behalf in terms of making
sure that we’re growing an economy that creates out-
standing middle-class jobs,” President Obama told the
crowd. “We’ve got just some extraordinary folks here.”
The President then proceeded to outline various
economic growth measures, such as boosting efforts to
export more goods and services, investing in high-tech
manufacturing centers and speeding up the approval
process for important infrastructure enhancements.
In Maryland, it is a given that any serious con-
versation about economic growth must include the
Port of Baltimore, which continues to enjoy
record-setting cargo numbers. The Maryland ÐÐÐÐ
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