Writer and photographer, Matthew Abbott, who runs the Baltimore Shipspotting blog, visited MITAGS in Linthicum Heights, MD! His visit included a tour of our full-mission bridge simulators, our tug simulators and our All Weather Navigation simulators.
Read what he thought about his visit here: https://baltimoreshipspotting.com/mitags-december-16-2019/
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