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The Port of Baltimore's ability to handle new super-sized cargo ships, coupled with a new intermodal cargo facility in the city, will provide tremendous opportunity for economic development.

A major gateway to Baltimore's port is getting a $44 million upgrade and commercial trucks will be required to use specific streets in Southeast Baltimore to alleviate congestion under a plan announced Tuesday morning.

Manufacturing advocates are trying to organize employers and local officials to get the sector growing again in Maryland after many years of decline.

The Mount Clare train yard in Baltimore has been tentatively selected as site of a port transfer station.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is working with CSX Transporation to review four sites in Baltimore that the railroad company could use as a new multi-million-dollar cargo transfer facility needed to accommodate increased freight demands at the Port of Baltimore.

Port of Baltimore had record month for general cargo tonnage in July.

Senseless loss of 19-year-old college students in coal train derailment a reminder of the dangers of railroad right-of-ways

Port reports record six months in cargo traffic

Md. transportation authority police void at top surpasses one year

Parking woes at the American Can Co. complex as it overflows with workers and visitors competing with residents for street parking

The fleet of Coast Guard vessels that call Baltimore home port increased by one Wednesday morning when the 65-foot cutter Chock arrived from Virginia.

Outgoing Maryland transportation secretary sees major accomplishments, some disappointments during her tenure

How do the Port of Baltimore's new cranes work?

After two months at sea, four giant cranes arrived at the port of Baltimore, ushering in a new era for cargo handling.

A delicate maritime ballet in two acts will play out Wednesday afternoon in the Chesapeake Bay as tugboats muscle a cargo ship carrying four supersized cranes under the Bay Bridge and then the Key Bridge on the way to the port of Baltimore.

State transportation officials will temporarily close two bridges as a precaution as a ship carrying large cranes passes beneath on its way to the port of Baltimore.

Sailabration to close with pleasant weather Tuesday, Korean liquor store owners react to plans to close many stores, and Donna's of Mount Vernon won't reopen its Madison Street location.

The proposal to build a natural gas pipeline along an existing pipeline that traverses Harford County in the Fallston are has brought into sharp focus a key issue that bears a bit of reflection.

CSX Corp. has terminated agreements to purchase land from property owners along Race and Hanover Roads in Elkridge, all but eliminating the possibility of it locating its proposed intermodal facility there.

State transportation officials are warning motorists to avoid the Harbor Tunnel and Thruway this summer during major reconstruction

The future of Sparrows Point is unlikely to include integrated steelmaking

Baltimore County hopes to capitalize on the expansion of the port of Baltimore and is looking for ways to spur job creation on the Sparrows Point peninsula.

Ship bringing massive cranes from China is expected in Baltimore by mid-June.

Q&A with Helen Delich Bentley, who believes U.S. lost upper hand in merchant shipping by not pursuing nuclear-powered commercial vessels like the N/S Savannah.

Colts backup quarterback Tom Matte deserved a spot on The Sun's greatest athletes list.

Even at an event honoring Helen Delich Bentley, officials manage to bungle the former congresswoman's name

For the second time since April, lawmakers will leave Annapolis without doing anything to address Maryland's unfunded transportation needs.

Nancy Pelosi is the minority leader in the U.S. House; from 2007-2011, she served as speaker of the House, the first woman to do so.

Helen Delich Bentley is a former maritime editor for The Sun, who left in 1969 to head the Federal Maritime Commission and later served 10 years in Congress.

For the few who want to get high on the high seas, watch out for customs.

Federal authorities seized $47.4 million worth of counterfeit luxury goods during last month's raid of Patapsco Flea Market, officials announced Thursday.

Two men were shot multiple times and a third man appeared to have shot and killed himself in three separate incidents in Baltimore on Tuesday night, according to police.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urges CSX to find a site in Baltimore for its planned cargo transfer center.

A new report calls on the Baltimore region to rethink economic development, pointing to a worrying trend: a mounting share of low-wage jobs shutting more and more residents out of the middle class

Counterfeiting: Whether it's pirated software or knock-off handbags, fraudulent economic activity harms all of us

Proposed increase in Maryland gas tax would hurt truckers and local economy

NRP squad practices search-and-secure tactics onboard the USNS Gilliland.

Khapra beetle larvae found in shipment of cumin bound for McCormick.

Patapsco Flea Market has a history of allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated merchandise, according to an affidavit, which outlined the latest accusation that resulted in a raid Sunday by federal Homeland Security intellectual property agents.

$1 million worth of imported nickel diverted to Pittsburgh

Cargo traffic at the Port of Baltimore grew 15 percent last year, the greatest increase of any major U.S. port. The public and private terminals moved 37.8 million tons valued at more than $51.4 billion, a 24 percent increase over 2010.

A federal judge in Baltimore has awarded $462,500 to a low-level merchant officer who alerted Coast Guard inspectors that his cargo ship was intentionally polluting the high seas.

The arrival of a cargo vessel from Guatemala early Monday morning marked the largest single raw sugar shipment ever to any port east of the Mississippi.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's gas tax plan may be unpopular but the outlook for Maryland commuters is far worse if lawmakers fail to support it

The growing export market in Baltimore, and in the nation, points the way for sustained job creation.

Baltimore region shows nearly double-digit growth in export goods and services, a Brookings Institution study shows.