The port recorded strong results in June, having handled 186,403 TEUs, which is a 6 percent improvement when compared with the same month last year. The month held growth for rail containers, 12.1 percent; Virginia Inland Port (containers handled), 102.8 percent; total barge containers 19.8 percent; total truck containers, 1.6 percent; ship calls, 1.3 percent; and vehicle units, 122.9 percent.
“We had a record-setting fiscal year, with our TEU volume growth up 6.5 percent when compared with fiscal 2013, and we’re also tracking for a record calendar year,” said John F. Reinhart, CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority (VPA). “There are multiple factors that have led us to this point: one is the people of this port and another is our ongoing effort to improve operational efficiency.”
The previous fiscal- and calendar-year records for performance were set in 2013.
Improving cargo conveyance systems, a restructuring of the relationship between VPA and its private terminal operating subsidiary, Virginia International Terminals LLC, creation of a task force to address the concerns of motor carriers serving the port and implementation of state-of-the-art technology at Norfolk International Terminals were among the port’s accomplishments in fiscal 2014.