# Port of Virginia signs contract with Military

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720 "2021-03-17T16:05:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/1 "2021-03-17T16:05:28Z")

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The port has signed a 5 year contract with Transportation Command to provide 40 acres of unused PIT container dock for heavy military equipment etc. Includes stevedores and other associated services. It had leased last year a staging area for Orsted wind farm equipment. Good for making use of that 279 acre facility.

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**Author:** ![ITOIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@ITOIL](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ITOIL)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/2 "2021-03-17T19:46:53Z")

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Ahh the Port Fourchon of the East Coast, it was only a matter of time before one of these states figured out the revenue generation positives.

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**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/3 "2021-03-17T20:36:14Z")

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Not quite Fourchonisqe, but a few small ,shallow draft tributarys are not unlike that. Glad to get the work. Port had record TEU’s recently.

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**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/4 "2021-03-18T15:28:03Z")

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I think New York is doing a 50 acre offshore wind facility in Brooklyn.

Of course there is Quansett.

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**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/5 "2021-03-18T17:17:52Z")

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Another port that is not Fourchonisque. The narrows are in fact narrow, but deep. Except for a few shallow tributarys. Another port NY/NJ experiencing up numbers in TEU’s and wind farm business.

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**Author:** ![Bayrunner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/bayrunner/32/966_2.png) [@Bayrunner](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bayrunner)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/port-of-virginia-signs-contract-with-military/58720/6 "2021-03-18T20:30:16Z")

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The Mendonca is at PMT now. That’s a good use for the space.