巴尔的摩港在2002年仅从港务局码头(不包括私家码头)就吐吞了670万吨杂货,打破了其历史记录。但是另一项应予以承认的该港记录是地中海航运(MSC)为该港吞吐了100万吨货物。MSC是该港承运人中第一个达到此数量的。 MSC作为当时并不占领先地位的纯粹的私人企业能在集装箱航运市场最不景气的时期躲开了当时风行一时的收购与兼并风波,乃是一个非凡的 The Port of Baltimore broke through its history by swallowing only 6.7 million tons of groceries from the Port Authority pier in 2002 (excluding private terminals). However, another record of the port that should be admitted is that MSC (Mediterranean Shipping) handled 1 million tonnes of cargo for the port. The MSC is the first of its kind in the port to reach this number. As a purely private company that was not then dominant, MSC escaped the bursting and mergers-and-acquisition turmoil of the time in the downturn of the container shipping market, an extraordinary