– Effective Friday, March 13, the port will implement a policy to reduce the number of days an export container can dwell on all terminals to 9 from 10
Yesterday, in an announcement to ocean carriers, the port extended free-time for all containers at VIG by two days
– Sunday gates have been extended through March 29: 7am to 5pm.
– In order to reduce stack density at VIG, we will begin using barge service to move containers to Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT)
– Finalising vessel calls to move to PMT
The port has already implemented the following congestion mitigation measures:
-Extended evening gate hours until 9 p.m., March 11-13
– Keeping empty container moves out of the gates at both VIG and Norfolk International Terminals (NIT)
– A project to segregate rail and truck cargo at VIG
– Requesting that ocean carriers evacuate as much of their cargo from the terminals as possible
– Using the 64 Express barge service to move containers between VIG and NIT in order to keep that dray traffic out of the gate