{"id":7646,"date":"2005-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2005\/04\/01\/baltimore-boss-in-shock-resignation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:35:15","slug":"baltimore-boss-in-shock-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/baltimore-boss-in-shock-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore boss in shock resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White brought much needed stability to a job that had seen seven administrators in eight years. He was respected throughout Maryland&#8217;s shipping industry and was considered instrumental in positioning the Port of Baltimore to become a leader in handling automobiles and other ro-ro cargoes.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime port consultant Helen Delich Bentley will lead a search committee appointed by Transportation Secretary Robert Flanagan to find a new executive director. Bentley is seen as a trailblazing legend in the maritime world. In a statement Bentley called White &#8220;the best executive director the Port of Baltimore has ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The furore burst into the open following the publication of a letter from a vice-president of Mediterranean Shipping, Baltimore&#8217;s largest containership client, threatening to abandon the port because of political interference with the port authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Baltimore executive director James Whites decision to step down as the head of the Maryland Port Commission came as a shock to the maritime community, reports the Baltimore Business Journal. White was instrumental in launching strategic initiatives to boost the ports cargo traffic. I think its a tremendous step back,  Thomas T. Koch, a former member of the Commission, said of Whites resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7646","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\/7646","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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}