{"id":8211,"date":"2020-04-17T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-virginia-to-close-marine-terminal\/8211\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:35:20","slug":"port-of-virginia-to-close-marine-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-virginia-to-close-marine-terminal\/8211\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Virginia to Close Marine Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Starting May 4, 2020, the port\u2019s Portsmouth Marine Terminal will be closed and cargo volumes will be consolidated to other terminals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>As an industry, we are faced with a record number of blank sailings, and idled containerships, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0We have witnessed a marked decline in current and forecasted volumes from our shippers and ocean carriers,\u201d the port said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Portsmouth Marine Terminal encompasses 287 acres on the west bank of the Elizabeth River and has 3,540 feet of wharf, three berths, 6 Super Post-Panamax STS cranes, and is able to handle containers, break-bulk, and roll-on\/roll-off cargo, according to the Port of Virginia website.\u00a0Its container capacity is 437,500 TEU per year. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Port of Virginia handled a record 2.9 million TEU and 21.9 million tons of general cargo with over 1,500 vessel calls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting May 4, 2020, the port\u2019s Portsmouth Marine Terminal will be closed and cargo volumes will be consolidated to other terminals.\u00a0 \u201cAs an industry, we are faced with a record number of blank sailings, and idled containerships, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0We have witnessed a marked decline in current and forecasted volumes from our shippers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3499,531,953,1256,3397],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-close","tag-marine","tag-port","tag-terminal","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}