Here are some more salient facts I found this morning.
Baltimore is one of the largest ports on the eastern seaboard of the United States. It is the
fourth largest port on the East Coast by total tons of cargo handled.according to the
https://www.bts.gov/ The port is the
twelfth largest container port in the U.S., according to Ryan Peterson, the CEO of Flexport.
It was
ninth in terms of the tonnage according to the governor of Maryland.
It was the
first in terms of the volume of automobiles and light trucks,including 847,158 cars and light trucks.
It is also the
second largest terminal for coal exports, handling around 74 million tons of coal last year, according to Bloomberg.
Peterson of Flexport stated that between the Red Sea crisis and the loss of Baltimore’s port,shipping will move toward the West Coast,where the Chicomms control a substantial number of those ports.
I watched a report last night that claimed that Baltimore handled more cargo as far as monetary value than any other port in the USA.I've not been able to establish this as fact,yet.
