NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — More cargo and coal will be able to move through the Norfolk harbor now that a $450 million shipping channel widening and deepening has been completed.
Thursday, Gov. Abigail Spanberger and other dignitaries gathered at Norfolk International Terminals (NIT) to “cut the ribbon” on what has now been dubbed the deepest port on the East Coast.
After a more than four years of work by the US Army Corps of Engineers, a ship can now navigate through water at least 55 feet deep, from the Atlantic Ocean Channel off the coast of Virginia Beach to Downtown Norfolk. It’s a distance of roughly 40-miles according information from the Virginia Maritime Association…