New warehouse furthers Port of Baltimore's paper dominance

The warehouse at the South Locust Point terminal is 30 feet high and has 12 loading docks and can hold as many as 10,000 rolls of paper. If stretched, each large paper roll would span 12 miles in length.

The facility was built as part of a six-year agreement between the Maryland Port Administration and Finnish paper company M-real, which has committed to bringing 300,000 tons of paper to the port annually.

The paper is used to produce magazines, newspaper inserts, and brochures. The Port of Baltimore leads East Coast ports in paper and paper pulp imports, state officials say.

"The Port of Baltimore handles more paper than any other port in the country," John Porcari, the state's transportation secretary, said in a news release. "Gov. [Martin] O'Malley's goal is to keep us number one in this category and many others so that the port continues to thrive.

M-real has two six-year renewable options as part of the contract. The company consolidated its North American imports to the Port of Baltimore at the end of 2005.

BalTerm LLP handles the stevedoring for M-real.

More than 16,000 workers are employed at the Port of Baltimore.

Source:RamblerNews