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Wes Moore: “The Port of Baltimore, which is responsible for about 13% of…”

Featuring: Wes Moore, Democratic | Governor of Maryland

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The Honorable J. Kevin Stitt and The Honorable Wes Moore

Published | Video Starts at 24:26

You do have to make sure you have additional spans. You do have to make sure that the reason that bridge is so important is because it's one of the leading arteries to The Port of Baltimore, which is responsible for about 13% of my state's economy and supplies about two thirds of this country. But you need to have a bridge that can actually support the size of the ships and the size of the cargo that we have now, which is different than what it was in 1975. (24:26–24:33)

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Asserts that the Port of Baltimore contributes significantly to Maryland's economy and supplies a large portion of the U.S.

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