Most notably, the port handled 2,105,887 TEUs, an increase of 9.8 percent when compared with 2011; only 22,479 TEUS separated 2012 from 2007, which is the port’s best year on record for TEUs.
“The Port of Virginia posted an 18.9 percent increase in containers and a 20.4 percent increase in TEUs handled in December 2012 compared to 2011,” said Rodney W. Oliver, the Virginia Port Authority’s interim executive director. “That made the sixth month in 2012 in which the port recorded a double-digit monthly increase year-over-year and the eleventh consecutive month of positive growth year-over-year in these two categories.”
The 2012 cargo total and the percentage of increase over 2011 are:
• TEUs: 2,105,887, up 9.8%
• Containers: 1,209,822, up 9.8%
• General Cargo Tonnage: 17,513,093, up 12.1%
• Total Rail Containers: 385,804, up 16.8 %
• Barge Containers: 8,009, up 82.5%
• Ship Calls: 1,963, up 7.4%