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3/11/2019
Twelve new container stacks have begun operating at the Port of Virginia's Norfolk International Terminals (NIT), port officials announced late last week.The announcement marks the completion of the first phase of a project to reconfigure the NIT's south container stack yard, according to a port authority press release."A little more than a year ago an area the size of 30 football fields was cleared and today we're processing thousands of containers through that same space," said John Reinhart, the port authority's chief executive officer and executive director. "We are 40 percent of the way through construction and are seeing good flow at the gates and are maintaining a strong, customer-focused effort during construction."Construction on the $375 million NIT expansion got underway in January 2018 with completion scheduled for 2020. The project's centerpiece is the construction of 30 semi-automated container stacks at South NIT, served by 60 new rail-mounted gantry (RMG) cranes. This project will expand NIT’s annual throughput capacity by 400,000 container units, going from 850,000 to 1.25 million container units — a 46 percent increase.Phase I consisted of the 12 new stacks and 24 new RMGs. Work began on Phase II (six stacks) in December 2018 and Phase III (12 stacks) work begins in May.
CSX, Norfolk Southern Railway, Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Co. and Commonwealth Railway serve the port.