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CONTAINERS
Another Container Service for Port
This new service for the Port of Baltimore follows a recently announced new container service for Baltimore on ZIM Shipping Lines as well as another service on MSC through the Indian Subcontinent and Mediterranean.
“Maryland’s Port of Baltimore and its outstanding workforce have fueled the state’s economic rebound from the pandemic,” said Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary James F. Ports, Jr. “The investments we and our partners are making at Maryland’s Port create good-paying, family- supporting jobs, and this new service will add even more to our overall economic impact.”
There is a need for utilization of more gateways such as Baltimore to land cargo in the United States. Import/ export demand for containerized cargo
has substantially increased over the past year. With that demand, port congestion is an all-time high. Baltimore is a prime gateway for goods heading to the e-commerce market and for cargo sent to the Midwest via rail. During
the recovery stages of the pandemic, Maryland’s Port has handled more than 50 “ad hoc” ship calls — vessels
diverted to Baltimore that were not on a regularly scheduled service call.
The Port of Baltimore has also begun to put into operation four additional supersized, Neo-Panamax container cranes. The cranes are part of a $166 million investment made by Ports America Chesapeake (PAC) at the Seagirt Marine Terminal and are
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