Port of Richmond

:"For other harbours with similar names, see Port Richmond."

The Port of Richmond, also known as the Richmond Deepwater Terminal, is located on the James River in Richmond, Virginia and lies adjacent to Interstate 95. The Port provides weekly service to the European Economic Union as well as the eastern ports of North, Central and South America.

Detailed description

The Port of Richmond is a domestic and international multi-modal freight and distribution center on the James River serving waterborne, rail and truck shippers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. The Port has container and general cargo facilities on the James River serving shippers throughout the Mid-Atlantic with weekly container services to the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. The port is part of a Supply chain network of over 600 warehouses.

The Port is owned by the City of Richmond, Virginia, making it one of a few municipality-owned ports on the East Seaboard. It is governed by the Port of Richmond Commission with day-to-day operations managed by Federal Marine Terminals, Inc.

Federal Marine Terminals provides exclusive stevedoring services as well as a full range of supply chain management services including export packaging and transfer and warehouse and inland distribution services.

The Port handles containers, breakbulk, bulk, neo-bulk, and livestock cargo.

Distribution

The Port provides service to Northern Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.
* Independent Container Line (ICL), the port's principal carrier and a leader in ocean transportation, operates four container vessels on a weekly schedule that serve Chester, PA, Richmond, VA, Liverpool, England, and Antwerp, Belgium. ICL also supports the Supply Chain requirements of companies needing waterborne, rail and trucking transportation warehouse services.

* Eimskip Iceland's biggest transportation company, began service in November 2006 [http://www.eimskip.com/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-20/27_read-1081]

Cargo

Major port cargo include tobacco, tobacco products, textiles, newsprint, wastepaper, chemicals, steel, steel products, phosphates, forest products, machinery, project cargo, refractory, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, aplite, and livestock.

The Port of Richmond is located at 77° 25' west latitude and 37° 27' north longitude on the James River, 100 miles from Cape Henry and approximately 78 miles north of Newport News, Virginia. The Port is the western terminus for commercial navigation on the James River and is four miles south of the central Richmond Business District.

ee also

* Deepwater Terminal Railroad
* Southside (Richmond, Virginia)

External links

* [http://www.ci.richmond.va.us/departments/econdev/demographics2.aspx#Employers www.ci.richmond.va.us]