May/June 2014
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The Port of Baltimore
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OUTREACH
Students Get
Involved in Port
Education Program
F
or national
Take Your Sons
and Daughters to Work Day
in April, the Maryland Port
Administration (MPA) designed a port
education program for participating
students. Five students witnessed
the unloading of a paper ship, a
roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) carrier and
a container ship during their tour
of the Dundalk and Seagirt marine
terminals. They also donned heavy
coats for a brief walk through the
sub-zero freezer at MTC Logistics,
and learned how chicken from
Maryland’s Eastern Shore arrives, is
flash frozen and then is shipped to
other countries.
To close out their Port experience,
they stenciled “Save the Bay”
messages on 14 storm drains at the
Cruise Maryland terminal, guided
by
Andrea Blohm
of the Dundalk
Renaissance Corporation, and the
MPA’s environmental compliance team.
This marked the third year of the
MPA’s involvement in Take Your Sons
and Daughters to Work Day.
MATTHEW SCALES
