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Dredge contract awarded to handle bigger ships at Miami's port
ReutersBy Zachary Fagenson MIAMI, May 16 (Reuters) - The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $180 million contract to dredge Miami's harbor to an Illinois-based company on Thursday, part of a plan to deepen the port channel to handle larger ships...Tags: Miami-Dade County, U.S. Army, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Panama, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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Donald A. Krach, port lawyer
Donald A. Krach, former general counsel for the Maryland Port Administration who was an advocate and goodwill ambassador for the port of Baltimore, died May 4 of complications from pancreatic cancer at his Timonium home. He was 80. "Don was a real...
Tags: Ocean City, Lawyers, University of Maryland, College Park, Timonium, Korean War (1950-1953)
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Port sales force makes pitch to attract, retain customers
The sales force for the port of Baltimore travels the country and the world, looking for business. It could be farm equipment manufactured in the Midwest on its way to Australia or furniture coming from South America or Alabama-built Hondas headed for...
Tags: Vehicles, Kia, IKEA, Volvo, Hyundai
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Public-private partnerships: the new model for infrastructure
There's a P3 in your future. Maryland is poised to join 34 states and key federal agencies in transforming the way government works. The new mantra, "P3," is shorthand for public-private partnerships. Maryland's P3 legislation, championed by Lt. Gov....
Tags: Executive Branch, Rentals, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama
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Seagirt Marine Terminal's super cranes celebrated
He didn't get down on one knee, but Christopher Lee wooed his wife with a skyscraping crane she literally could call her own at the dedication of the port of Baltimore's berth capable of handling the world's largest cargo ships. As founder of Highstar...
Tags: Ceremonies, War of 1812, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Politics, Arts and Culture
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Cruise ship returns to Baltimore after $48 million renovation
Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship returned to the Port of Baltimore Friday after undergoing a $48 million renovation. The ship, which replaces the Enchantment of the Seas, arrived early Friday morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a...
Tags: Sailing, Royal Caribbean International, Cruise Line Ports, Tourism and Leisure, Cruises
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Baltimore Co. hopes to attract thousands of jobs to Sparrows Point
A new marine terminal could bring 9,000 jobs to the Sparrows Point peninsula, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Friday as he laid out the county's vision for remaking the land around its closed steel mill. A terminal in the peninsula's...
Tags: Inner Harbor, Bankruptcy, Economy, Business and Finance, University of Baltimore, Companies and Corporations
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Hope for Sparrows Point
The demise of steelmaking at Sparrows Point last year landed like a body blow on eastern Baltimore County. With 2,000 jobs and a 125-year-old legacy lost in the shutdown and subsequent liquidation of assets, the cost to families, to the local economy...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Kevin Kamenetz, Employment Opportunities
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Finance, Regional Authority, Politics, Company Privatization
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BWI Business Partnership sponsors transportation forum
Mark Montgomery, president and CEO of Ports America Chesapeake, will be the guest speaker at the BWI Business Partnership's May signature breakfast and annual transportation forum, Wednesday, May 15, from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. at the BWI Airport Marriott,...Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Maryland Transit Administration
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Port job fair highlights National Maritime Day event
Twenty-eight companies at the Port of Baltimore will be taking part in a job fair on May 18 at Canton Pier 13 as part of National Maritime Day observances. The free event will showcase the companies and careers at the public and private terminals and at...
Tags: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland)
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