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The Maryland Port Administration received a federal award Wednesday for its success in driving up exports out of the port of Baltimore's public terminals in recent years.

Repairing the city block that collapsed amid heavy rains in Charles Village last month will cost the city more than $18.5 million, according to city officials and a cost estimate released Monday.

The industrial sector has been the strongest part of the Baltimore-area commercial real estate market.

A bipartisan water transportation bill that would allow Maryland to unload tons of dredging material on Chesapeake Bay islands — an effort officials say is critical for the port of Baltimore — won broad support in the House of Representatives on Tuesday and is poised for final approval in the Senate.

An agriculturally destructive moth species never before seen in the United States was located in a shipment of Chinese soybeans at the port of Baltimore, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday.

Investors hailing from other markets, even those from the state that produced Silicon Valley and Hollywood, are readily overlooking opportunities in their own backyard in favor of placing capital in Baltimore. Why? Because the narrative surrounding Baltimore is beginning to shift.

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The initial clean-up of a landslide that deposited about half a city block and eight vehicles onto CSX Transportation freight tracks in Charles Village was paid for by the railroad company. It remains unclear who will pay other costs associated with the collapse.

A CSX freight train reportedly carrying 8,000 tons of coal partially derailed in Bowie early Thursday morning, dumping at least some of its load on the ground surrounding the tracks, according to the Prince George's County Fire & EMS Department.

A nearly 120-year-old retaining wall that has troubled Charles Village residents for decades collapsed amid a month's worth of rain that fell Tuesday and Wednesday, dumping half a dozen cars, street lights and sidewalks onto the CSX rail tracks below.

Charles W. "Chuck" Battenfeld Jr., a retired Canton Railroad Co. executive, died April 23 of heart failure. He was 95. His wife of 70 years, Mary J. Battenfeld, a homemaker and an accomplished seamstress, died four days later. She was 92.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Maryland Port Administration a $750,000 grant to extend the port of Baltimore's Dray Truck Replacement Program through March 2016, the port announced Monday.

This year, the designers of the Baltimore Symphony Associates Decorators' Show House had an unusual problem: getting visitors to take their eyes off the views outside the $3.5 million penthouse on the 23rd floor of Silo Point long enough to look at the rooms inside.

The dueling complaints by two port of Baltimore union officials that each assaulted the other will be weighed by the residents of Baltimore, after their attorneys asked for a jury trial in the case.

Kevin Plank's whiskey company has applied to trademark the "Triple Rye" product name and expects to settle on a location in the coming weeks. Initially planned for the site of Plank's 530-acre horse racing farm in Glyndon, the plant may be located in Baltimore City instead, Sagamore Spirit General Manager Brian Treacy said.

The intervention of a national union could remove some obstacles to finding a settlement between a local and Baltimore's steamship operators.

Following an investigation that revealed missing funds and questionable financial practices, officials of a national longshoremen's union are considering seizing control of a Baltimore chapter — a move that could complicate contract negotiations at the city's port.

The destructive collision of a 477-foot tanker with a coal pier in Baltimore in 2012 that cost millions of dollars in damages, injured a dockworker and sparked litigation was likely caused by the "high rate of speed" at which operators were turning the Wawasan Ruby into Curtis Creek, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Maryland employers added 2,300 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged since February, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday.

David A. Wagner, former deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation who later headed the Maryland Port Administration before being named in 1989 chief operating officer of the Port of New Orleans, died April 7 of cancer at his home in Mandeville, La. He was 71.

Passengers on the Grandeur of the Seas left Baltimore for the Bahamas after ship was scrubbed after second wave of stomach illnesses

Local longshoremen went on strike at the port of Baltimore, their actions quickly rippled out into the international shipping trade with negative effects, and now the confusion and costs caused from Chicago to Cartagena to Freeport have taken center stage in their union's efforts to secure a new local contract.

The port of Baltimore handled more cargo containers, automobiles and wood pulp in 2013 than ever before, a record-setting performance despite ongoing labor unrest on its public docks.

Monster trucks, wild animals and figure skaters draw millions to Feld Entertainment's live shows each year. But some of that magic comes from an unlikely arena — an industrial complex in Jessup.

A Florida company that produces traveling circus, motorbike and Disney on Ice shows, will locate its national distribution center in Jessup to house stuffed animals, memorabilia and other merchandise sold at the performances.

Wind turbines and clean energy offer Maryland a better future

If you work in Maryland, you have good reason to be concerned about climate change and to be in favor of more clean energy like land-based wind power. Unfortunately, a bill moving in Annapolis right now would severely handicap Maryland's ability to pursue onshore wind development within our borders.

Things have not gone according to plan for city and state officials and CSX Corp. executives in the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood of Morrell Park. State officials have pointed some blame at city officials for the neighborhood's proposed CSX truck-to-train cargo transfer facility having veered off track.

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Maryland lawmakers have approved a bill to require periodic inspections of elevators and lifts on steep waterfront properties, following last summer's death of businessman John "Jock" Menzies in an accident.

Residents in Morrell Park believe city and CSX rail officials considered them pushovers when they decided to build a 24/7 truck-and-train transfer depot in their backyards. Now the residents are out to prove the opposite, and are having some success.

State environmental regulators say they are drafting a settlement with the owners of the Sparrows Point peninsula and a contractor after finding multiple alleged violations at the former steelmaking site.

The U.S. Department of Justice has identified and begun targeting a broad conspiracy to fix prices on automobile shipments out of Baltimore and other U.S. ports, with a Chilean company recently pleading guilty to violating federal antitrust laws in the scheme.

Union has made Port of Baltimore great

Port labor dispute

Baltimore's longshoreman's union is hurting its members future.

The EPA should alter its rules on fuel for sea vessels to account for the impact on near-shore shipping.

Wintry precipitation starting around 10 p.m. Sunday is expected to bring up to a tenth of an inch of ice and as much as 8 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

First the port of Baltimore's ongoing labor dispute heated up with a strike, then it was "cooling off" under arbitration, and now it's just simmering with uncertainty — to the benefit of no one, port observers say.

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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on Monday seized almost $33,000 from a man at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport who reported bringing only $9,000 into the country on his flight from London.

KeyCam, one of two sites unveiled Tuesday, offers views of Fort McHenry from where Francis Scott Key would have been standing

When Carnival Cruise Lines broke up with Baltimore last summer, saying Charm City had become too expensive a date under newly restrictive environmental regulations, it was with substantial regret.

Members of a longshoremen's union at odds with port of Baltimore employers over local labor issues will cast secret ballots next week on whether to accept the employers' "best and final" contract offer.