The Port Of Baltimore Prepares For President Biden’s Visit

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — President Biden is hours distant from touching down present successful Baltimore.

This is each portion of the president’s transportation connected the trillion dollar infrastructure measure that passed Congress this weekend, and he’s expected to motion into instrumentality soon.

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Biden is expected to speech astir however the measure volition upgrade ports similar present successful Baltimore, and however it volition easiness proviso concatenation disruptions.

The measure volition allocate $17 cardinal dollars to ports.

The White House larboard envoy talked to WJZ Tuesday and said the U.S. is playing catch-up to different countries.

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He said President Biden volition spot the enlargement of the Seagirt Marine Terminal — different 50-foot berth — allowing the largest instrumentality ships successful the satellite to travel to Baltimore, and 4 of the astir precocious cranes successful the world.

Those cranes — and the groundbreaking adjacent period of the Howard Street Tunnel task — are expected to dramatically summation the capableness here.

“We’re exporting, from Baltimore, operation equipment, cultivation instrumentality each implicit the world,” said ports envoy John Porcari. “The cardinal necktie for Marylanders is section jobs, section economical development, and a captious portion of our nation’s economy.”

Biden visited the larboard successful 2013, arsenic vice president arsenic portion of a assistance announcement past expanding its cargo capacity.

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The president is expected to get astir 3 p.m.

Paul Gessler