BALTIMORE—State officials report that the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore set a host of new cargo records in fiscal year 2015.
The port moved more than 9.7 million tons of general cargo and more than 808,000 20-foot containers from its public marine termials in fiscal year 2015 that ended in June 2015, both new records, and continues to set additional major benchmarks.
The new records include: most general cargo tons in a fiscal year at 9,742,050 tons. General cargo includes containers, autos, roll on/roll off (farm and construction machinery), forest products, and break-bulk cargo. The port also set a high water mark for most general cargo tons in the first six months of a calendar year at 4,881,105 tons. The port also set two records for 20-foot equivalent units. The port recorded the most TEU containers in a single month at 79,644 units set in June 2015 and the most TEU containers in a 12-month period at 808,500 units in the 12-month period that ended in June 2015.
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