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Investments in the port of Baltimora in order to receive the mega one portacontainer
Acquired an area. Previewed the creation of about 1.650 new direct places of work
May 31, 2017
Also the port of Baltimora has decided to invest in new infrastructures in order to manage the traffic generated from the portacontainer of large-capacity that is entering to take part of the world-wide fleet. With such objective the Department of the Transports of Maryland Port Administration (MPA) has bought an adjacent area of 70 acres to the Seagirt Marine Terminal, investment that very follows 30 years the last acquisition of areas carried out from the Department when in 1987 it bought an area to the Fairfield Marine Terminal to assign to the car traffic.
More than portacontainer the employees on the routes ocean-going liners, they have been those used on the routes that connect the port with Asia through the channel of Panama hat to have induced the MPA to such step: "from when last year we have received the first large one portacontainer reached through the renewed one and widened channel of Panama hat - the governor of Maryland has confirmed, Larry Hogan - the port of Baltimora has recorded a meaningful rise of its activity in the container. With the acquisition of ulterior areas the port will have a greater ability to manage the increase of this economic activity and meanwhile to generate new opportunity of job for the citizens of Maryland".
In particular, the MPA previews that these new areas, than besides storage of the container will be used also for car storage and rotabili, will allow to generate about 1.650 new direct places of work.
Last year the port of Baltimora has enlivened a traffic of the container record that has been pairs to 583.567 teu, with an increment of +3% compared to the previous enlivened records of 523.848 teu in 2015.
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Also the port of Baltimora has decided to invest in new infrastructures in order to manage the traffic generated from the portacontainer of large-capacity that is entering to take part of the world-wide fleet. With such objective the Department of the Transports of Maryland Port Administration (MPA) has bought an adjacent area of 70 acres to the Seagirt Marine Terminal, investment that very follows 30 years the last acquisition of areas carried out from the Department when in 1987 it bought an area to the Fairfield Marine Terminal to assign to the car traffic.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
