With official 2016 shipping numbers finally on the books, a good year for the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore has turned into a great one.

The port announced today that it handled record levels of general cargo and shipping containers last year. The official tallies were 10.1 million tons of cargo, up from 9.6 million tons — a 5 percent increase — in 2015, and around 538,600 individual containers, up from 523,900 — a 3 percent increase — the year before.

The jump in cargo volume was the largest year-over-year increase since 2012, according to Maryland Port Administration data. The port’s performance was particularly strong in December, when the number of containers jumped 23 percent over December 2015, per a release from the governor’s office.

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