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Jeremy Jeffreys. Photo courtesy Fairlead.
Sep 18, 2025

Fairwinds Landing partner promotes COO and SVP

Portsmouth-based advanced engineering and manufacturing company Fairlead, a Fairwinds Landing project developer, promoted Jeremy Jeffreys to SVP and COO.

Port of Virginia expects a reduction in imports from China due to President Trump's tariffs. Photo courtesy Port of Virginia
Sep 17, 2025

Port of Virginia sees 8.7% drop in cargo traffic

The Port of Virginia has seen a decline in shipping container volumes in recent months, amid President Trump's trade war.

From left: Rear Adm. Stephen Barnett, outgoing commander of Navy Region Hawaii, receives his end-of-tour award from Vice Adm. Scott Gray, commander of Navy Installations Command, at a ceremony Aug. 5, 2025, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. Barnett is now commander of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic in Norfolk. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tristan Labuguen
Sep 12, 2025

Navy Region Mid-Atlantic welcomes new commander

On Friday Rear Adm. Carl Lahti was relieved by Rear Adm. Stephen Barnett as commander of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic in Norfolk.

2025 Virginia 500: Transportation | Maritime | Ports | Logistics
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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: BANAS, RYAN

Banas oversees the $3.9 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion, the largest highway construction project in Virginia’s history and one of the largest infrastructure projects in the country. In May, the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Mary, saw its mining operations pass the halfway point with nearly 60% of the more than 7,900-foot second tunnel excavated. As […]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: BENNETT, P. DALE

Bennett adopted the love of trucking from his late father, a professional truck driver, and has advocated for the trucking industry for more than 40 years. The nation’s trucking industry has been hit hard in recent years by driver shortages, supply chain woes and high diesel prices. At the federal level last year, the VTA […]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: CRUTCHFIELD, RANDALL

Crutchfield has been chairman and CEO of Colonna’s Shipyard — one of the nation’s largest private shipyards — since January 2024, succeeding Tom Godfrey, who retired at the end of 2023 after leading the company for decades. Founded in 1875 and headquartered in Norfolk, Colonna’s provides ship repair, marine and industrial machining, and steel fabrication. […]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: EDWARDS, STEPHEN

The Virginia Port Authority runs the Port of Virginia, which is one of the state’s chief economic drivers. Annually, port-related business and activity account for more than 565,000 jobs, more than $124.1 billion in total spending and $5.8 billion in state and local tax revenues. Meanwhile, Edwards and other port leaders have stayed focused on […]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: KUHN, CHARLES

At age 16, Kuhn founded JK Moving Services, now North America’s largest independently owned and operated moving company, with $225.5 million in fiscal 2024 revenue. It employs more than 1,300 workers. The company has moved presidents and their families in and out of the White House since George H.W. Bush’s administration, including moving the Trumps […]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: LAYNE JR., AUBREY L.

Layne, a former state secretary of finance and secretary of transportation under two governors, has worked at Sentara, a 34,000-employee regional health system, since July 2021, overseeing several teams, including legislative affairs, real estate, construction, supply chain, security, compliance, internal audit and privacy. He also chairs the Virginia Port Authority board, which oversees the Port [...]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: McDANIEL, CHARLES

McDaniel is Hilldrup’s fourth president since the moving, storage and logistics since the moving, storage and logistics company was founded in 1903. The McDaniel family has owned the company since 1940. McDaniel also previously chaired the board for UniGroup, the Missouri- based parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit. Hilldrup now generates annual revenues exceeding [&hel[...]

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Sep 2, 2025

Transportation 2025: MEMORY, BEAU

Memory started with Transurban, an Australian transportation company operating express toll lanes in Northern Virginia, in November 2023 after serving as executive director of the Public Highway Authority in Denver. He oversees 155 employees and the company’s toll lanes on the Capital Beltway and i terstates 95 and 395, as well as the A25 Bridge […]

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