Politics & Government
Port of Baltimore Sets Container Moves Record
5,181 Moves Is The Highest Amount Ever In Port's 313-year History
The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore last week conducted 5,181 container moves while handling the Thalassa Elpida, marking the highest amount of container moves per ship in the Port’s 313-year history.
This surpassed the previous record of 4,395 container moves from the MSC Maria Elena on March 3, 2015. Container moves are the number of times an imported container is discharged from a ship onto the port as well as when an export or empty container is loaded from the port onto the ship.
“The very busy Port of Baltimore continues to set records and show the way as one of our state’s leading economic generators,” said Governor Larry Hogan. “I congratulate the men and women who make up our hardworking Port labor force who worked so hard to establish this latest record!”
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The Thalassa Elpida, which has a capacity of 13,808 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers, arrived at the Port’s Seagirt Marine Terminal, which is operated by Ports America Chesapeake.
