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The shipyard was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries Inc. In 2012, it was owned by Barletta Industries, which had converted it to the Sparrows Point Shipyard and Industrial Complex. [1] [2] As of 2021, it is owned by Sparrows Point Terminal, LLC and has been renamed Tradepoint Atlantic.
Sparrows Point in 2021. Sparrows Point is an industrial area in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, adjacent to Edgemere.Named after Thomas Sparrow, landowner, it was the site of a very large industrial complex owned by Bethlehem Steel, known for steelmaking and shipbuilding.
Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland (1914–1997). [15] Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, (1940–1945). [16] [17] Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore. The upper yard was sold to AME/Swirnow in 1983. The site now holds Ritz Carlton and Harborview communities next to Baltimore Museum of Industry. [18] [19]
The Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard at Sparrows Point, Maryland, one of the company's primary steel making and shipbuilding plants Demolition of part of the original facility in Bethlehem in 2007 Blast furnace A at the flagship plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2009
That facility became known as the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard for the Fairfield section of Baltimore, where it was located. Bethlehem Shipbuilding was one of the nation's largest shipbuilding companies, having construction yards on the East Coast in Quincy, Massachusetts, on Staten Island, New York, and at Sparrows Point, also in Baltimore. [2]
Six construction workers died after a container ship collided with a Baltimore bridge. Now residents who relied on the Key […]
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited (BethShip) (1913–1964) Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland (1914–1997) Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts; Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana; Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York; Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas (1942–1985)
The decline of the US steel market in the latter half of the twentieth-century caused a decline in traffic for the PBR as Bethlehem Steel shut down many of its operations at Sparrows Point. Steel making on the point would cease forever when the fourth successor to Bethlehem Steel, RG Steel went bankrupt in 2012 and the site was liquidated.