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Vice President Joseph Biden joined state officials on Monday to praise a new $10 million federal grant to expand the port of Baltimore, saying the funding will help bring the port to a "new level." - Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Port of Baltimore on Monday as part of a tour of East Coast ports seeking federal money to accommodate increased freight expected from the Panama Canal in coming years.
- John C. Magness, Canton Railroad Co.'s president and CEO, shares his thoughts on where the company is headed.
- The port of Baltimore won a $10 million federal grant to build more access to rail, expand storage at Fairfield Marine Terminal, and help widen the channel at Seagirt Marine Terminal to accommodate bigger ships.
- The Baltimore County Ethics Commission will not file a complaint against a Dundalk councilman who didn't disclose his outside employment – including a stint with a county schools contractor — for years, saying he took the necessary steps to correct his omissions.
- Health Care for The Homeless clinic at Franklin Square Medical Center hopes to serve more patients after it triples in size.
- John T. Menzies III, chairman of The Terminal Corp. and founder, president and chairman of American Logistics Network, died Saturday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being injured in an accident at his Arnold home. He was 69.
- Officers discovered multiple envelopes wrapped in clothing that contained U.S. and foreign currency worth more than $45,000.
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- The port of Baltimore announced a new contract with Japanese automaker Mazda on Tuesday that it said will create 160 new jobs and support hundreds more starting in September.
- About 18 months after leaving Mexico en route to Hunterstown, Pa., a 440,000 pound power transformer has found its journey north stalled in Westminster.
- Environmental hurdles lie ahead in the race to increase capacity at the port of Baltimore as cargo tonnage continues to rise and an expanded Panama Canal promises more business in the future.
- High-speed rail is the future of long-distance travel
- According to a study to be released Tuesday by the National Center for Healthy Housing, the Baltimore-Washington Rail Intermodal Facility has the potential to significantly impact the air quality in the neighborhood while driving down housing prices. The facility also raises concerns about noise and light pollution.
- Federal officials discovered a particularly destructive type of beetle in a 55,000-pound shipment of cumin seed entering the Port of Baltimore from India on Friday.
- Twelve men and women at Baltimore's Coast Guard station make up the Aids to Navigation Team, responsible for maintaining buoys, markers and lighthouses: changing light bulbs, scraping and painting metal and banging out dents caused by sloppy seamanship.
- James Smith Jr., 71, is taking the helm of a 10,000-employee agency that oversees highways, bridges, tunnels, BWI Marshall Airport, the Port of Baltimore, the Motor Vehicle Administration and mass transit.
- The Maryland Port Administration wants to build an auto terminal at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in the next few years, speeding plans to bring jobs to an area hungry for them.
- Two years after the Obama administration restarted a long-standing effort to rid itself of surplus federal buildings almost all of the excess property identified in Maryland remains in government hands, a Baltimore Sun review has found.
- Detroit and Baltimore have both experienced profound post-industrial decline, but Charm City is in a much better position to rebound, thanks to an economic transformation and tough political leadership.
- The Port of Baltimore's cruise business was made whole Friday morning, when Grandeur of the Seas began loading passengers for its first ocean voyage since a fire put the vessel in dry dock more than six weeks ago.
- The inspector general of the U.S. Postal Service is urging the agency to take a cue from the port of Baltimore and expand its partnerships with private businesses to cut costs and modernize its infrastructure.
- U.S. commerce "would grind to a halt in a matter of days" in the wake of a crippling cyber attack that the nation's ports — including Baltimore — are ill prepared for, according to a new Brookings Institution report. But Port of Baltimore officials called the report "misleading and factually incorrect."
- The Port of Baltimore has applied for a $10 million federal grant — to be matched by a state grant of $19.5 million — to expand rail access and export storage at Fairfield Marine Terminal and to widen the access channel to Seagirt Marine Terminal.
- Carnival Cruise Line's departure from Baltimore in 2014 need not put an end to local cruise ship business
- Come Monday, driving around Maryland will cost more – both at the gas pump and the toll plaza.
- Still smarting from news that half of Baltimore's lucrative cruise business is headed south next year, the state's ports chief said Friday that officials already are working on replacing the Carnival Pride.
- Baltimore appears destined to lose lucrative cruise business next year, as Florida-based Carnival Cruise Lines announced Thursday that it plans to move its 2,124-passenger ship, the Pride, to Tampa, Fla., in November 2014.
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- Shippers should have to choose between doing business in Maryland and in Iran
- In a move that might aid the port of Baltimore, the world's three largest shipping companies announced that they will form a global alliance to boost fleet capacity and reduce operating costs.
- The Baltimore County Ethics Commission is likely to discuss a councilman's omissions on his financial disclosure forms at a meeting next week, its executive director says.
- New funding to expand service and capacity gets Baltimore area closer to the regional transit system in needs
- A Baltimore County councilman has not reported his outside employment on financial disclosure forms for the past several years, including his work with a painting and drywall company that has a $3.1 million contract at a new high school being built in his district.
- Port of Baltimore officials used the Saturday observance of National Maritime Day to throw open a pier at the Canton Marine terminal and invite 28 waterfront businesses and agencies to hold a career day.
- CSX Transportation expects to complete plans next month for a $90 million truck and train terminal in South Baltimore to serve port container traffic.
- The Port of Baltimore's sales plan, built several years ago, targets autos, containers, farm and construction equipment, forest products and passenger cruises. The sales brochure consists of the port itself: its location in the middle of a pocket of prosperity, its efficient workforce and tranquil labor relations, its sense of maritime community built over generations.
- Donald A. Krach, former general counsel for the Maryland Port Administration who earlier had practiced maritime and commercial law, died May 4 from complications of pancreatic cancer at his Timonium home. He was 80.
- Maryland officials and business leaders marked the official opening of Seagirt Marine Terminal's berth that is capable of handling the world's largest cargo ships.
- P3s combine the strengths of two sectors while creating jobs and saving taxpayers money
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- Ruxton's Christopher Lee helped transform Port of Baltimore to gain competitive edge
- Baltimore County officials believe they can bring close to 10,000 new jobs to the Sparrows Point peninsula by capitalizing on its location and infrastructure.
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- Twenty-eight companies at the Port of Baltimore will be taking part in a job fair on May 18 at Canton Pier 13 as part of National Maritime Day observances.
- Mark Montgomery, President and CEO of Ports America Chesapeake, will be the guest speaker at the BWI Business Partnership's May signature breakfast and annual transportation forum, Wednesday, May 15, from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. at the BWI Airport Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, in Linthicum.
- Howard County legislators said last week they believe the General Assembly will have to make adjustments in 2014 to a state-mandated stormwater management fee imposed on Howard County and nine other Maryland jurisdictions.
- Obama, Congress should not pursue deficit reduction in a way that hurts municipalities
