{"id":7617,"date":"2009-02-13T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/02\/13\/baltimore-buys-space\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:34:56","slug":"baltimore-buys-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/baltimore-buys-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore buys space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conversation with<\/p>\n<p> <i>Port Strategy, <\/i><\/p>\n<p>the port authority said that there are currently 57,000 cars awaiting delivery.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>JB Hanson of Maryland Port Administration explained that &#8220;the normal wait-time is around one to one and a half weeks but over the last few months it has been two to three weeks&#8221;. The extra time has caused the back up.<\/p>\n<p>However, another factor may further complicate matters: car dealers are now also declaring themselves insolvent,and going out of business, so the cars due to go to them have now been effectively orphaned.<\/p>\n<p>The land is from the parcel being developed as the Chesapeake Commerce Centre, an industrial park near the port, and is being seen as a long-term investment by the port authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Baltimore has snapped up 14.6 acres of adjacent land for $5.25m in an acquisition designed to relieve pressure on the ports terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}