A third weekly sailing is being added to the 64 Express container-on-barge service that connects the Hampton Roads with the Port of Richmond, and Virginia Port Authority officials are confident that adding a third trip will help double the volume of cargo moved by the service.
Barges carrying 80 to 100 containers will now call at the Port of Richmond on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. VPA interim Executive Director Rodney W. Oliver says the next step is to elevate the service to five days a week.
The service carried 5,978 containers in the first eight months of the year, a 105 percent increase over the same period in 2011.
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