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CMA CGM America’s Ed Aldridge to retire
Peter Levesque named new president
Ed Aldridge, president of CMA CGM America and American President Lines LLC, will retire on Dec. 6, and Peter Levesque, who was previously Ports America Group’s president, will take over
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Youngkin tours Amazon’s new robotics fulfillment center in Suffolk
Alongside robots, 1,500 employees process 200k packages per day
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Amazon.com Inc.’s 3.8-million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center in Suffolk opened in September, but the global retail colossus held an official grand opening at the facility Thursday, allowing Amazon officials to show
Lease signed for Fairwinds Landing in Norfolk
Lambert's Point to become offshore wind operations, logistics center
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The ball has started rolling on the $100 million project turning the Lambert’s Point Docks property in Norfolk into Fairwinds Landing, a maritime operations and logistics center to support the local offshore
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Amazon opens new Chesapeake facility
640,000-square-foot center has 900 workers already
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Last week Amazon.com Inc. opened its new, 640,000-square-foot processing facility in Chesapeake, the global e-tailer’s first cross-dock fulfillment center in Virginia. About 900 of the 1,000 workers that Amazon announced
ODU to create supply chain, logistics, maritime school
Resolution to approve school effective Oct. 15
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Old Dominion University will create a School of Supply Chain, Logistics, and Maritime Operations, pending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the university announced Friday. In
Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk to become $100M maritime center
Fairwinds Landing expected to produce 500+ jobs
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In a deal predicted to bring more than 500 jobs and over $100 million in capital investment, the Lambert’s Point Docks property in Norfolk will become a maritime operations and
Setting a course
Businesses, port seek paths around supply chain backlogs and logjams
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Each week, MDV SpartanNash LLC, the nation’s leading supplier for overseas U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, loads 100 to 200 containers filled with everything from peanut butter to clothing aboard
Turning on a dime
Driver shortage affecting trucking industry
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Though many American consumers may not think about it much, trucks move just about everything they buy, use, eat, drink and wear. The U.S. trucking industry hauled 72.5% of all
Port of Virginia
Details about the economic engine
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In fiscal 2021, the Port of Virginia set cargo records, generating more than $100.1 billion in ancillary economic impact, according to a report from William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason
Sound investments
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Let’s simply call it a magazine publisher’s reality check. When news reports of supply chain disruptions and record backups at West Coast ports began to appear last year, I immediately