The new agreement extends the current contract with MSC, the port’s largest container shipping company by volume, to December 31, 2014. The deal maintains 628 direct jobs and the continued shipment of MSC containerized cargo through the port.
MSC began a weekly service to Baltimore in 1988, bringing about 4,500 containers to the port that year. By 2008, the number increased 30 fold to more than 136,000 containers. MSC also was the first container shipping company to work out of the Seagirt Marine Terminal after it opened in 1990.