Federal, state, local and industry leaders broke ground Friday on a terminal facility at the former Bethlehem Steel site that will grow the Port of Baltimore’s container handling capacity by 70%.
The Sparrows Point Container Terminal is slated to be completed in 2030, by which point Baltimore will jump from the sixth- to the third-largest container port on the East Coast.
“Progress doesn’t just happen, progress is made to happen,” Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement. “From our response to the Key Bridge collapse two years ago to the recovery that continues to this day, Team Maryland and our federal partners are showing what it looks like to deliver progress through partnership. Today at Sparrows Point, we mark the next chapter in the Port of Baltimore’s success story — for our workers, for our state, and for our nation.”
The 168-acre container terminal and on-dock rail facility will handle about 1 million containers annually and generate an estimated $1.5 billion for the state. The terminal will also create more than 8,000 jobs, including 1,100 permanent International Longshoremen’s Association union jobs and 7,000 jobs indirectly connected to the terminal’s operations, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
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