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The return of Carnival Pride to Baltimore offers a valuable lesson in economic growth and environmental protection

Carnival Cruise Lines announced on Thursday that it will be returning its Pride cruise liner to the port of Baltimore in March, after new technologies helped it meet federal environmental regulations that threatened to drive up costs.

A developer wants to buy city-owned property near the Fairfield Marine Terminal to turn it into more parking for the port of Baltimore's thriving automobile industry.

Labor dispute at Port of Baltimore rooted in more than next week's pay check

Discord has erupted within the longshoremen's union at the heart of the port of Baltimore's raging labor dispute, with some members calling for an end to the union's standoff with port employers and others promising to carry on the fight.

A $1 trillion spending bill passed by Congress late Thursday, averting another federal shutdown and funding the federal government through October, directs tens of millions of dollars to the port of Baltimore and will keep FAA towers open across the state.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

Members of a local longshoremen union "resoundingly rejected" what has been described as a "best and final" contract offer from employers at the port of Baltimore on Monday night, according to the union president.

Mikulski first bill appropriations chair

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. is known for buy-one-get-two men's suit deals at stores around the U.S. and more recently for a heated, ongoing takeover battle with rival Men's Wearhouse.

Members of a local longshoremen union that went on strike in October, crippling the port of Baltimore for days, will meet Monday to discuss a new contract offer from the port's employers.

Officials at the port of Baltimore don't know how feasible it is to turn dredged muck from the bottom of Baltimore's shipping channels into a commercially viable construction material — but they are looking to find out.

The Maryland Port Administration is urging state officials to approve its sale of a 346,0000-square-foot Inner Harbor pier and the thin strip of land it attaches to in the Canton Industrial Area.

Howard County has entered an unusual agreement to supply treated waste water to cool a massive new computer center being built by the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. But NSA critics see an opportunity to disrupt the agency's increasingly controversial surveillance activities.

Given anticipated improvements in national economic activity built into state budgetary forecasts, Maryland must be in disequilibrium. Our economy is simply not expanding quickly enough to finance all of the spending in which Annapolis' policymakers collectively want to engage.

In one of the largest drug busts at the port of Baltimore in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized nearly 128 pounds of cocaine from a Panamanian shipping container last week.

A flatbed truck pulled away from the port of Baltimore last week carrying uranium once packed into nuclear warheads aimed at the United States.

Roberto I. Gutierrez, co-founder of a Baltimore based international freight forwarding and customs brokerage, died Monday of dementia at Arden Courts in Riderwood. He was 93.

Robert V. Rood, a retired longshoreman who was a world champion powerlifter, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Pasadena home. He was 73.

Virulent opposition among West Baltimore residents to a proposed CSX Transportation cargo facility in their neighborhood continues to raise questions about the viability of the long-studied project. It has also disrupted key conversations on growth at the port of Baltimore.

Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to begin a nine-day trip to Brazil and El Salvador on Monday.

It is fitting that Thanksgiving Day will be Helen Delich Bentley's birthday. Among our other blessings we should be thankful that our nation was blessed with this remarkable combination of toughness, character and kindness that is the lady from Baltimore.

Mayor Rawlings-Blake says tour of Panama Canal made it 'crystal clear' how much transfer terminal is needed

Champion of the port, former congresswoman honored for service

Costs of trip to be covered by federal government, city says

Frank Hamons, a trained biologist who for the last 30 years has lead efforts to dredge the port of Baltimore's channels in an environmentally sustainable way, has left the Maryland Port Administration for the private sector.

The port of Baltimore's public marine terminals have earned a positive security assessment from the U.S. Coast Guard for the sixth year in a row, the Maryland Port Administration announced Thursday.

Two years after his departure from First Mariner Bancorp, the bank he launched and turned into city's largest, Ed Hale finds himself on the outside looking in.

Wedded: Kimberly Reis and Mario Soto

A measure that would allow Maryland to continue to unload huge quantities of dredging spoils on islands in the Chesapeake Bay — an effort considered critical for the port of Baltimore — won broad bipartisan support Wednesday in the ordinarily divided House of Representatives.

Credits for impoverished areas, loans make up incentive package.

The BWI Business Partnership's November Signature Breakfast and Transportation Forum will be held Thursday, Nov. 14 from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. at the BWI Airport Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, in Linthicum.

Amazon.com will open a 1 million-square-foot distribution center that could employ 1,000 people at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, the company announced Tuesday.

The Greater Baltimore Committee's leadership program has trained more than 1,200 people in its 30 years, from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to T. Rowe Price Chairman Brian Rogers. As they mark the anniversary, supporters are ramping up scholarship efforts to make the program more affordable.

A labor strike and neighborhood protests over an intermodal terminal are troubling developments for the Port of Baltimore

Cargo operations resumed at the port of Baltimore on Friday amid negotiations between a local longshoremen's union — which began striking Wednesday — and port operators.

Historians and architects have a $5 million plan to repair the pillar that was closed to the public three years ago for safety reasons. They expect it to reopen for tours — and a panoramic view of the city from 178 feet above Charles Street — for its bicentennial on Independence Day, 2015. By January, scaffolding will begin to enclose the monument for repairs from decades of water damage to the marble, stones and bricks..

Cruise lines operating out of the port of Baltimore have not been affected by the longshoremen strike that has shuttered operations at the port's public marine terminals, according to port and cruise line officials.

State and port officials urged a quick end to a strike by hundreds of longshoremen who work the port of Baltimore's docks, idling one of the region's big economic engines.

Driven by a surge of opposition from local residents, several city leaders have withdrawn their support for a major CSX Transportation rail facility proposed for Southwest Baltimore.

Maryland's largest distributor of wine and spirits is moving its headquarters to White Marsh, taking more than 500 jobs from Anne Arundel County to Baltimore County.

Export proponents want companies in the Baltimore region — and nationally — to do more international business as a way to propel economic growth. Exports accounted for an expanding but still fairly slim 7.7 percent of the metro area's economic activity last year.

They are the handmaidens of the port of Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay, as they scurry to and fro with all manner of arriving and departing ships and barges lashed to their hips.

Marylanders have been rushing to buy guns at the rate of 1,000 a day over the past two weeks, hastening the pace of an unprecedented surge in gun sales. More than 102,000 gun purchase applications have been submitted so far this year — twice the number for all of 2011, Maryland state police said Monday.

A gathering of about 150 residents of Morrell Park in Southwest Baltimore denounced a proposed CSX Transportation cargo transfer terminal proposed for the neighborhood at a rowdy community meeting Wednesday night.

Julio T. "Speedy" Gonzalez, who rose from a Puerto Rican orphanage to become a successful shipping executive in the Port of Baltimore, died Thursday from complications of diabetes at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 88.

Richard P. Hughes Jr., a port labor leader recalled as a "feared negotiator" who rose to become president of the International Longshoremen's Association, died of heart and lung disease Sept. 11 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Howard E. Chaney, a former official of the state Department of Public Health who was also an accomplished woodworker, died Sunday of cancer at his Lutherville home. He was 95.