Multimodal Freight

The Port of Norfolk makes our region the end of the line for many cargo ships, freight trains, and trucks. Often the goods are left packed in intermodal containers as they change carrier. While most of these are not routed through Virginia Beach, we are dependent on the goods they deliver and the jobs they generate. Our transportation policy choices may affect the cost of those goods or the sustainability of the jobs. Port security has become critical as trade has grown more global. And freight has contributed to regional traffic congestion as well as economic vitality.

“Six days on the road and I’m a gonna make it home tonight”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcYRkUI0Dk

It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville,
And the lie was a three-mile grade,
It was on that grade that he lost his air brakes,
And you see what a jump that she made.
http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/old97.html

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
http://www.almosul.org/cargoes_by_john_masefield.htm