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Maritime 2022

The Port of Virginia processed a record 3.5 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) last year. December 2021 cargo volumes alone were 25% above December 2020. Photo courtesy Port of Virginia
Apr 28, 2022

Setting a course

Each week, MDV SpartanNash LLC, the nation’s leading supplier for overseas U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, loads 100 to 200 containers filled with everything from peanut butter to clothing aboard steamships bound for Europe, Africa, Bahrain, Kuwait and Honduras, as well as Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay. “In places[...]

Dale Bennett, president and CEO of the Virginia Trucking Association, says the pandemic exacerbated the state’s existing driver shortage. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown
Apr 28, 2022

Turning on a dime

Though many American consumers may not think about it much, trucks move just about everything they buy, use, eat, drink and wear. The U.S. trucking industry hauled 72.5% of all freight transported nationwide in 2019, according to the Arlington-based American Trucking Associations. Why should anybody care? Because the ranks of tr[...]

Apr 28, 2022

Port of Virginia

In fiscal 2021, the Port of Virginia set cargo records, generating more than $100.1 billion in ancillary economic impact, according to a report from William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business in conjunction with Glen Allen-based Mangum Economics. The six-terminal system generated 436,667 jobs, $47.4 billion in Virginia gross state product, $27.2 billion […]

Equus Capital Partners Ltd. is building a 340,000-square-foot warehouse logistics center near the Virginia Inland Port in Front Royal. Photo courtesy Equus Capital Partners Ltd.
Apr 28, 2022

Forward motion

Shenandoah is known for apple blossoms, but something else is popping up this spring in Front Royal: a new 340,000-square-foot warehouse logistics center. About a half-mile from the Virginia Inland Port, the center is one of roughly a dozen projects in the region built by Equus Capital Partners Ltd., a commercial real estate age[...]

Russell Czack, a retired Navy commander, is now senior program manager for Operation Next in Hampton Roads. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Apr 28, 2022

Next stop — civilian life

“About every 15 minutes,” Shawn Avery’s phone at the Hampton Roads Workforce Council rings with an employer calling to find skilled workers to fill vacancies, he says. Avery is president and CEO of the council, which oversees federally funded workforce development programs and links employers and workers. In the presen[...]

Krista Kubovchik will graduate from Old Dominion University in December with a double major in maritime and supply chain management and business analytics. Her internship at Chesapeake’s Givens Logistics turned into a part-time job. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Apr 28, 2022

Solid prospects

Detlev Peters has walked into convenience stores in the Hampton Roads area a couple of times recently to find the candy aisle shockingly empty. “Hershey’s, Reese’s, M&M’s, everything, like they would just have a clean shelf of just nothing,” marvels Peters, who graduated with a degree in maritime and supply chain m[...]

Apr 28, 2022

Commentary: Adjusting to a new shipping reality

Ocean shipping patterns established during the first year of the pandemic have taken root, and it’s time for shippers to adjust strategies for the long term. That was the takeaway from the first in-person Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) Conference in three years, presented in Long Beach, California, in March by IHS Markit Ltd. (n[...]

Floating narrow-leaved spatterdock (Nuphar sagittifolia) and emergent common spatterdock (Nuphar advena) on the channel edge of a fresh tidal marsh at Big Marsh Point, along the Chickahominy River in James City County Photo by Gary Fleming, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Apr 28, 2022

Ways of the water

Back in 2016, Virginia Coastal Zone Management program planners began talking about ways to protect the Lower Chickahominy River watershed. “We’re like, ‘Well, let’s get ahead of this,’” says Jefferson Flood, an appropriately named coastal planner for the CZM, a network of individuals from Virginia agencies and local[...]

The 9.9-mile Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project is on course to be finished by November 2025. Photo by Virginia Department of Transportation
Apr 28, 2022

Digging in

As the largest highway construction project in state history, the $3.8 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is without question the most notable road project currently underway in Virginia. Construction began in October 2020, and workers made a lot of progress last year, remaining on track to reach the Virginia Departme[...]

Apr 28, 2022

Executive insights

Leaders from Virginia’s maritime and logistics industries share their thoughts about where their sectors stand amid labor shortages, growing cargo volumes and the pandemic’s lingering impacts. Devon C. Anders President, InterChange Group Inc.; Chair, Virginia Maritime Association Valley Logistics Chapter Harrisonburg VB: How is your company hiring and retaining staff? Anders: We have intensified through […][...]

Newport News Shipbuilding is the only shipyard in the country building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. In the foreground is the Ford-class carrier USS John F. Kennedy, which is about two years from delivery. Photo by Ashley Cowan/Huntington Ingalls Industriesa
Apr 28, 2022

Harder, better, faster, stronger

On March 20, 1922, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier: the USS Langley. A century later, the Navy is hosting centennial events around the country, including in Norfolk, where the USS Langley was converted into the Navy’s first carrier from the USS Jupiter, the Navy’s first electrically propelled ship. The [...]

Dominion Energy’s $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project off Virginia Beach is set to be completed in 2026. Photo courtesy Dominion Energy Inc.
Apr 28, 2022

Tilting toward windmills

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A.’s October 2021 announcement that it will build the nation’s first offshore-wind blade factory at Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT) has put Hampton Roads on a trajectory to become a supply chain hub for the country’s nascent offshore-wind energy industry. The Spanish wind turbine company [...]

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