Groundbreaking Starts Sparrows Point Container Terminal for Baltimore

Groundbreaking Starts Sparrows Point Container Terminal for Baltimore

Tradepoint Atlantic and MSC’s Terminal Investment Limited (TiL) broke ground on May 1 on the Sparrows Point Container Terminal. A key part of the red...

Work begins on major new shipping terminal at former Bethlehem Steel site

Gov. Wes Moore (D) and other dignitaries participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site of the future Sparrows Point Container Terminal on May 1, 2026. The new Tradepoint Atlantic terminal, expected in 2029, will greatly increase capacity at the Port of Baltimore. (Photo by Christine Condon/Maryland Matters)The next chapter of Baltimore County’s former Bethlehem Steel mill dawned on Friday, with the official groundbreaking of a new conta…

Sparrows Point container terminal to grow Baltimore port's capacity

Federal, state, local and industry leaders broke ground Friday on a terminal facility at the former Bethlehem Steel site that will grow the Port of Baltimore’s container handling capacity by 70%. The Sparrows Point Container Terminal is slated to be completed in 2030, by which point Baltimore will jump from the sixth- to the third-largest container port on the East Coast. “Progress doesn’t just happen, progress is made to happen,” Gov. Wes Moore…

MSC, Tradepoint begin work on first private US terminal in decades

Baltimore’s Sparrows Point Container Terminal is scheduled to debut its first berth in 2028, some 14 years after the site began its transformation from an old steel mill into a comprehensive logistics center.