Maryland State (U.S.A.), a land of Manufacturing, agriculture and fishing, Biotechnology, defense contractors, and tourism

Dynamics are steadily positive in this exciting state of + 6 million consumers capable to consume services anywhere and anytime. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland households are among the wealthiest in the country. Two of Maryland's counties, Howard and Montgomery, are the second and eleventh wealthiest counties in the nation respectively. 

Maryland's economy benefits from the state's close proximity to the federal government in Washington, D.C. with an emphasis on technical and administrative tasks for the defense/aerospace industry and bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the suburban or exurban Baltimore/Washington area.

There is a number of educational and medical research institutions located in the state.

Typical forms of manufacturing include electronics, computer equipment, and chemicals. 

Mining other than construction materials is virtually limited to coal, which is located in the mountainous western part of the state.

One major service activity is transportation, centered on the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access.

The port also receives several different brands of imported motor vehicles and is the number one auto port in the U.S.

Baltimore City is the eighth largest port in the nation, and was at the center of the February 2006 controversy over the Dubai Ports World deal because it was considered to be of such strategic importance.

The state as a whole is heavily industrialized, with a booming economy and influential technology centers. 

Its computer industries are some of the most sophisticated in the United States, and the federal government has invested heavily in the area. 

Maryland is home to several large military bases.

Maryland has a large food-production sector. A large component of this is commercial fishing, centered in the Chesapeake Bay, but also including activity off the short Atlantic seacoast. The largest catches by species are the blue crab, oysters, striped bass, and menhaden.

The Bay also has overwintering waterfowl in its wildlife refuges. The waterfowl support a tourism sector of sportsmen.

Maryland has large areas of fertile agricultural land in its coastal and Piedmont zones. Agriculture is oriented to dairy farming (especially in foothill and piedmont areas) for nearby large city milksheads plus specialty perishable horticulture crops, such as cucumbers, watermelons, sweet corn, tomatoes, muskmelons, squash, and peas (Source:USDA Crop Profiles).

In addition, the southern counties of the western shoreline of Chesapeake Bay are warm enough to support a tobacco.

Maryland's food-processing plants are the most significant type of manufacturing by value in the state.

Maryland is a major center for life sciences research and development. With more than 400 biotechnology companies located there, Maryland is the fourth-largest nexus in this field in the United States.

Maryland is home to defense contractor Emergent BioSolutions, which manufactures and provides an anthrax vaccine to U.S. government military personnel.

The beach resort town of Ocean City along the Atlantic Ocean is a popular tourist destination in Maryland

Tourism is popular in Maryland, with tourists visiting the city attractions of Baltimore, the beach attractions of the Eastern Shore, and the nature attractions of western Maryland, as well as many passing through en route to Washington, DC.

The Maryland Department of Transportation, headquartered in the Hanover area of unincorporated Anne Arundel County, oversees most transportation in the state through its various administration-level agencies. 

Maryland's Interstate highways include 110 miles (180 km) of Interstate 95 (I-95), which enters the northeast portion of the state, travels through Baltimore, and becomes part of the eastern section of the Capital Beltway to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.

There are also several auxiliary Interstate highways in Maryland.

Maryland's largest airport is Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, more commonly referred to as BWI.

Amtrak trains, including the high speed Acela Express serve Baltimore's Penn Station, BWI Airport, New Carrollton, and Aberdeen along the Washington D.C. to Boston Northeast Corridor.

Ellicott City Station, on the original B&O Railroad line, is the oldest remaining passenger station in the United States.

Freight rail transport is handled principally by two Class I railroads, as well as several smaller regional and local carriers.