waterway and maritime transportation industry

Light rail project will be light years ahead of Baltimore's existing trolley system

State officials looking to tap anticipated growth in the East Coast shipping industry are back at the drawing board after abandoning a freight rail project that has been central to their strategy for half a decade.

An uptick in black admissions among the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Class of 2018 is certainly promising, but the academy has made progress in the past and then failed to sustain its diversity gains.

Emergency responders from multiple agencies participated in an exercise Wednesday that simulated the capsizing of a water taxi in the Inner Harbor near Canton, a drill meant to familiarize rescue personnel with how such responses work.

Emergency personnel will converge on Inner Harbor waters near Canton on Wednesday as part of a staged water taxi disaster, an event geared toward assessing rescue capabilities and practicing response techniques.

Inner Harbor fall left this visitor broken and without legal remedies to get a pedestrian hazard fixed

Allen Grossman, a prize-winning poet who spent 15 years teaching his craft to students at the Johns Hopkins University, died June 27 at his home in Chelsea, Mass. He was 82 and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Local 333 owes nearly $4 million in damages owed to seven shippers affected by a strike last fall that violated the union contract. With payment still pending, it is now being sued in federal court by two shippers' organizations, the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore and the United States Maritime Alliance, seeking to collect the damages on behalf of their members.

The Baltimore Department of Transportation has been awarded a federal grant of more than $850,000 to purchase and operate an electric boat as part of its Harbor Connector water taxi service in the Inner Harbor.

A body was pulled from the Inner Harbor Tuesday afternoon near Under Armour headquarters — at least the 11th time since October that someone has been found dead in the waters around downtown.

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.

Officials and community members said they want to find "big, game-changing ideas" that can make the monies – estimated to be at least $15 million annually – an engine for economic development in the communities impacted by the new gambling facility.

Where to have a great time in the water or in the shade

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.

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.

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

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

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

Residents across Maryland haven't felt the last wintry bite of the snow that lashed the state Tuesday, as its effects will linger through the weekend under frigid temperatures.

With the National Weather Service issuing a winter storm warning for Tuesday in central and southern Maryland, Baltimore health officials declared a Code Blue alert warning of potentially dangerous conditions.

Started in the late 1970s but rooted in a much older Baltimore tradition, the city's water taxis are shedding their reputation as a summertime option solely for tourists, becoming a viable year-round option for city residents and downtown commuters as well.

Plans to rehabilitate Inner Harbor should be aimed at local residents

City leaders will unveil an ambitious long-term plan for the Inner Harbor Wednesday designed to restore pizazz to a once vital area that has lost cache in recent years.

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.

More than 100,000 people will converge on Annapolis during the next two weeks for the annual fall boat shows. The shows are a long standing tradition in Annapolis and soon will be under new ownership.

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.

Living Classrooms has become a nationwide model for helping at-risk kids and young adults turn their lives around

The on-demand taxi company Uber has a new offer for Baltimore customers this weekend: boat trips across the Inner Harbor.

Two people were injured Saturday afternoon as they pushed a burning boat away from other vessels at an Essex yacht club, officials said.

A sport utility vehicle was towed from the waters of the Inner Harbor in Canton on Wednesday morning, the Baltimore Fire Department said, after witnesses reported a driver bailing out of the vehicle just before it drove off the waterfront.

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Statue of Liberty reopens

As much of Baltimore finishes its work day, the Domino sign is just warming up.

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.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large, ocean-going ships to burn cleaner fuel.