Last week saw a number of updates on port infrastructure funding and terminal project statuses.
The Federal Railroad Administration grant will be used to upgrade the intermodal rail yards at the Seagirt Marine Terminal.
Five hundred containers were removed from the Ever Forward to lighten its load and help salvage crews refloat the vessel stuck in Chesapeake Bay.
If at first you don’t succeed, switch to plan B.
The refloating of the container ship stuck in Cheseapeake Bay could be a “long, laborious operation.”
Maritime authority Lars Jensen says the “reality is that vessels do at times get stuck and this is not an event with major global ramifications.”
The Coast Guard said it is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment to refloat the grounded Ever Forward.
Heightening the clearance of the Howard Street Tunnel will enable double-stacked trains to run in and out of the Port of Baltimore.
President Biden was Professor Biden at the Port of Baltimore, explaining Supply Chain 101 to the American people.
The project to expand the Howard Street Tunnel has received federal environmental approvals, bringing the $466 million project closer to fruition. The expansion will enable the tunnel to accommodate double-stacked container trains, which could benefit the nearby Port of Baltimore.
