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Maritime 2021

Matt Needy, Newport News Shipbuilding’s vice president of U.S. Navy programs, says the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier is in the final testing and outfitting stages. Photo by Ashley Cowan/Huntington Ingalls Industries
Apr 29, 2021

The largest yard

In a year when the world stood still, forcing businesses to adjust, the shipbuilding industry in Hampton Roads was told from the start to keep working. In early spring 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raised the question of who qualified as “essential personnel,” the U.S. Navy made one thing clear — that designation definite[...]

Apr 29, 2021

The Port of Virginia

By 2024, the Port of Virginia expects to be the deepest port on the East Coast at 55 feet, with room for two-way traffic for some of the world’s largest vessels. The port has six terminals and has invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure since 2015, producing 390,000 port-related jobs across the state, $23 […]

Offshore wind presents “a generational opportunity to change the economics of Hampton Roads,” says Matt Smith, director of offshore wind business development for the Hampton Roads Alliance. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Apr 29, 2021

Wind at their backs

Hampton Roads is on the cusp of becoming a supply chain hub for the thousands of components used to construct the massive turbines that will propel offshore wind farms being developed off the East Coast.  American offshore wind projects currently rely on a European supply chain for turbine components, but shipping the enormous [...]

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