Page 22 - Port of Baltimore - Issue 5 - 2024

Our customers and Port partners are driven to change the
way they do business to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
decarbonize, increase electrification throughout our marine
terminals, and, most importantly, positively impact our near-Port
The funding announcement builds on the Biden
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Administration’s championship of the Port of Baltimore
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and the State of Maryland’s infrastructure needs, which
includes the recent $30.9 million Infrastructure for
Rebuilding America award for Dundalk Marine Terminal
Reconstruction of Berth 11 (see page 21) and the $7.5
million award for Curtis Creek Drawbridge Rehabilitation
and Resiliency projects. The projects directly advance the
federal government and State of Maryland’s partnership
to recover and rebuild after the Dali struck the Francis
Scott Key Bridge.
work, wages and wealth for all.”
“The Maryland Port Administration is committed to
integrating our overall mission of increasing cargo and
generating jobs through the Port of Baltimore with forward-
looking environmental and sustainability solutions,” said
MPA Executive Director Jonathan Daniels. “Our customers
and Port partners are driven to change the way they do
business to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize,
increase electrification throughout our marine terminals,
and, most importantly, positively impact our near-Port
environmental justice communities.”
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proposal by scanning the QR code.environmental justice communities.”– Jonathan Daniels, MPA Executive Director
“This is a great day for the Port of Baltimore and a great
day for Maryland,” said Gov. Moore, in announcing the start
of double-stack rail service — a milestone of the ongoing
Howard Street Tunnel Project — on Oct. 28. “As the Port of
Baltimore continues to grow, this transformational project
will help increase business activity and create thousands of
new jobs. In partnership, we are creating new pathways to
In addition to enhanced transport cost efficiency
and enhanced environmental benefits, double-stacking
containers will help the Port grow its business by about
160,000 containers annually and will create 13,000 new
jobs in construction and in operations. Double-stacking
will also complement the expansion of the Seagirt Marine
Terminal, operated by Ports America Chesapeake, as home
to supersized Neo-Panamax cranes that handle ultra-large
container ships.
“This is a significant milestone for intermodal rail service
between Baltimore and Midwest markets and wouldn’t be
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possible without the ongoing collaboration between our federal,
state and local project partners,” said CSX President and CEO
Joe Hinrichs. “This underscores our broader commitment to
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