It might seem odd that the port is selling off this sort of equipment now. It’s been expanding its two other container facilities, and two years ago welcomed four towering cranes to Virginia International Gateway to efficiently handle growing capacity.
By GORDON RAGO | The Virginian-Pilot | Published: March 17, 2021 NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) Hampton Roads is a military town. Hampton Roads is a port town. Why not combine the two? A $15 million, five-year contract signed last month ties the industries together: The military has lots of stuff; the port can help move it. And it appears the deal would breathe new life into the Portsmouth Marine Terminal, a cargo facility located on the Elizabeth River which was closed to container traffic in April due to near double-digit drops in cargo related to the coronavirus pandemic. The port has kept the terminal intact for other uses like staging equipment for an upcoming offshore wind project.
Under a five-year, $15 million contract, the Port of Virginia will provide dockworkers and facilities to move cargo including tanks, helicopters and food supplies.
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By J. Dennis Robinson
It’s a New Year’s tradition for journalists like me to look back on the key events of the previous year, but have a heart. Who wants to rehash that hot mess? And as to predicting what might be coming in 2021, well, we all know how unreliable fortune tellers are. So let’s wind the clock back a safe distance, once again, and review what was about to happen one, two, three and four centuries in the past.
400 years ago
With the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Hampshire now only two years away, I bet 95% of Portsmouth residents don’t have an inkling of how it all began. No judgment here. I’m halfway into writing a book on the topic and, trust me, it starts out confusing and goes downhill. We know precious little about Amias, David and John Thompson (Thomson) who settled at Little Harbor in 1623, and much of what we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries is probably wrong.