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[8] The Port of Baltimore ■ ISSUE 3 / 2024
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PHOTOS BY BILL MCALLEN
EVENTS
Wiedefeld Honored as Transportation Person of the Year
The Traffic Club of Baltimore honored Maryland Secretary of Transportation Paul Wiedefeld as its Transportation Person of the Year at the organization’s annual dinner.
At the event, Wiedefeld received a citation from Gov. Wes Moore, which was presented to him by Maryland Port Administration Executive Director Jonathan Daniels.
Above, left to right: Wiedefeld, Daniels and former U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary and Maryland Transportation Secretary John Porcari at the
Traffic Club event.
NEWSMAKERS
Community Organizations
Supported Dali Crew, Other Seafarers During Key Bridge Incident
regularly,” he said. “My colleague Andrew Middleton with Apostleship of the Sea went out to do communion for the Catholics on board.”
The Seafarers’ Center also facilitated the provision of care packages to crew members aboard the Dali. “We had a local Indian group put together some snacks and other things — those were taken out with the salvage ships or the pilots.” Indian nationals made up most of the members of the Dali’s crew.
Messick also noted that the Dali’s crew was generally well taken care of, though communication was an occasional challenge, as the crew’s
While much of the public focus was on salvage operations around the Key Bridge and the reopening of shipping channels, local organizations like the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center and the Apostleship of the Sea did their part to address the human element of the crisis.
The Rev. Joshua Messick, Executive Director of the Seafarers’ Center (pictured top right), spent the weeks after the Key Bridge’s collapse regularly communicating and visiting with crews of stranded ships. While he did not personally board the Dali, he chatted with its crew via Whats App “pretty
