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three months of 2018 was


8% more than in 2017. The port also handled 156,991 containers during the first quarter, a 14% jump over 2017. Container volumes also set records at Ports America Chesapeake’s Seagirt Marine Terminal, with cargo volume increasing


14% in the first


three months of this year. The Maryland Port


Administration recently announced the state-owned public marine terminals at the Port of Baltimore set two new monthly records in May. The port handled 61,058 autos and light trucks besting its previous record of 60,624 set in November 2015.


be handled at a high level of effi-ciency and velocity,” said Hogans. PAC is exploring an


expansion plan that includes water side, yard, equipment, and gate projects to increase terminal performance, velocity, and capacity. With these


plans completed,


Seagirt’s will grow to 1.4 million lifts per year.


Port of Virginia


August was the second most productive month in the Port of Virginia’s history and the combined July and August results show TEU volumes increasing by 8% year over year.


“In addi-tion to peak


“[Ports America Chesapeake’s several initiatives at Seagirt] will support


another record-setting year for cargo volumes at the Port of Baltimore.” – Bayard Hogans, Ports America Chesapeake.


In a related development, Maryland’s governor recently approved a contract in July that will complete the fill in of a wet basin at the port’s Fairfield Marine Terminal, a development which will create seven acres of land to handle autos and farm and construction machinery. Ports America Chesapeake is in the process of rolling out several initiatives at Sea-girt. Work has been progressing on an off-dock chassis depot, expected to open in the middle of October. Construction is underway on an off-dock empty depot, with the gate portion of the pro-ject already completed. Additional improvements will include expansion of the secondary gate complex to facilitate chassis and export activity. “These efforts will support


another record-setting year for


cargo volumes at the


Port of Baltimore,” said Ports America Chesapeake General Manager Bayard Hogans. Over $26 million of new including yard


equipment,


hustlers, top loaders, and a Mi- Jack crane will be deployed at Seagirt by the end of 2019’s second quarter. “The cumulative impact of these efforts will ensure cargo at Seagirt Marine Terminal will


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Port America’s Port Newark Container Terminal is close to completing a $500-million infrastructure and equipment upgrade to its facility. (Image: Ports America)


throughput capacity by 40% or one-million container units.” At VIG, all 26 of the new


rail-mounted gantry cranes have been delivered and most were operational by October 2018. At NIT, deliveries are un d erw a y for the 60


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season volumes,” said Joe Harris, a port spokesman, “we are seeing some inbound cargo moving in anticipation of expanded tariffs.” The port has seen continued


interest in the Richmond Express barge service that links Norfolk Harbor with Richmond Marine Terminal. Barge volume was up 23% in fiscal year 2018, with reefer cargo being one growth area. The port’s capacity


expansion projects at Virginia International Gateway (VIG) and Nor-folk International Terminals (NIT) are on budget and on schedule. “When these projects are complete, we will have invested more than $700 million in those terminals,” noted Harris, “and expanded our annual container


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