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Norfolk Southern Corp.’s Pier 6 coal transloading facility at Lamberts Point in Norfolk, Va., recently completed one of its largest loadings in the past 20 years.

On Sept. 29, NS loaded 152,681 net tons of coal into a ship destined for ThyssenKrupp Steel in the Netherlands — one of the largest loadings since 1998, when a ship was loaded with 157,645 net tons of coal.

NS has been transferring coal and coke from rail cars into export and domestic vessels in the Lamberts Point area since 1884, when it opened Pier 1. Pier 6 opened in 1962 and dumped its 1 billionth ton of coal in 1999.

Most coal moving through Pier 6 originates in southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Alabama. The coal is shipped to several dozen countries and a number of domestic receivers.