Tremendous transportation resources are available to the firm locating its operations in Newport News. The transportation network, which links Newport News to the rest of the world market, is modern and sophisticated. A Newport News location not only allows your firm to reap the benefits of rapid and efficient transportation services, but it gives your firm a vital key to emerging as a business leader—flexibility. NEWPORT NEWS offers multi modal flexibility that’s central to the East Coast: by truck, by rail, by ship, by air.
HIGHWAYS/TRUCKING
Interstate 64 and its Downtown link, Interstate 664, are the vital freeways that supercharge the Newport News motor transportation system. The interstates bring everything closer together and cut down transit time for your products. Interstate access in Newport News benefits your local, metropolitan and national transportation movements.
Locally, you can ride the interstates from one end of the City to the other and anywhere in between. Newport News Marine Terminal and Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport are both served by interchanges. So are the City’s industrial parks and Jefferson Lab, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Regionally, the interstate network connects the downtowns of all four major Hampton Roads cities: Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampton. The I–64/664/264 system also provides quick access from Newport News to Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk and the Williamsburg area. Two bridge–tunnels — one along I-64 and the other along I–664 — link Newport News to the Southside of Hampton Roads.
Nationally, I–64 is an integral part of the best highway system in the world. In 50 minutes you can be in Richmond traveling on I–95 to Washington, D.C., the northeast urban corridor, the industrial markets of the mid West or South (via I–85) toward Atlanta, Charlotte and Birmingham. I–64 continues west to I–81, which then links with I–40, a major east west trucking route. I–64 proceeds further west through West Virginia and Kentucky toward St. Louis.
Three U. S. highways serve Newport News. Route 17 connects with Fredericksburg, Virginia at I–95 and leads south along the coast through the Carolinas. Routes U. S. 258/58 reach west along the Virginia/North Carolina border with interchanges at I–95, I–85 and I–81. U. S. 60 leads north to Richmond and then through central Virginia.
Distance and Delivery Time (in days) from Newport News to Major U.S. Cities
Air |
Highway |
Motor Carrier |
Rail |
|
| Atlanta | 508 |
580 |
2 |
4 |
| Baltimore | 141 |
218 |
1 |
2 |
| Boston | 464 |
611 |
2 |
4 |
| Charleston, SC | 354 |
456 |
2 |
3 |
| Charlotte | 281 |
313 |
2 |
2 |
| Chicago | 684 |
899 |
2 |
5 |
| Cleveland | 412 |
534 |
2 |
4 |
| Detroit | 506 |
696 |
2 |
5 |
| New York | 288 |
407 |
2 |
3 |
| Philadelphia | 200 |
300 |
2 |
3 |
| Washington, DC | 122 |
171 |
1 |
2 |
More than 100 truck lines serve Newport News and the surrounding metropolitan area. These lines provide the gamut of trucking services, from less than truckload capabilities to transporting containers and liquid bulk cargo. Overnight/next day service is available within about a 250 mile radius; i.e., to most cities in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and eastern North Carolina.
STREETS/ARTERIALS
I–664 offers four Downtown interchanges. Five I–64 interchanges serve the City’s Oyster Point and Denbigh areas to smoothly handle traffic in these high growth districts. Two major arterials (Warwick Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue) are four to six lane highways running the length of the City. About one half of Jefferson Avenue is six-laned.
Newport News has six, four lane cross street arterials (Mercury Boulevard, J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Oyster Point Road, Bland Boulevard, Denbigh Boulevard and Fort Eustis Boulevard).
RAIL
Newport News is an eastern terminus of the CSX, the nation’s largest rail system. A main line terminating at the Newport News ports and several rail spurs carry goods and commodities between Newport News and CSX’s vast market. Rail spurs enter Oakland and Peninsula industrial parks. Siding is available to firms located along the CSX main line and spurs. Small loads can be picked up at your company’s freight dock by a CSX delivery truck.
CSX’s service area includes the industrial Mid West, the South, and parts of Canada. CSX has more than 47,500 miles of track. Besides containers and other general cargo, a tremendous amount of coal moves over the CSX tracks to the Newport News ports. The CSX is the nation’s largest coal hauling line.
Rail passenger service to Newport News is provided by AMTRAK. Daily service between Newport News, Washington, D.C., New York and Boston is provided from a new, modern passenger station opposite Huntington Park.
AIR SERVICE
Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is one mile from I–64 and no more than 15 minutes from any point in the City. Norfolk International Airport is no more than 45 minutes away from most Newport News locations. Richmond International Airport, near I–64 south of Richmond, can be reached within 75 minutes.
Major Airlines:
AirTran
Allegiant
Delta
Frontier
PEOPLExpress
US Airways
Cities with nonstop flights: 9
Daily passenger flights: 48
Annual passenger volume: 729,281
Pounds of mail/freight: 80,667
Facilities: 8,000 foot non-directional beam instrument approach runway can handle any size jet, including the jumbo C5A military transport.
Norfolk International Airport is located in Norfolk, near the Virginia Beach city line, one mile east of I–64.
Major Airlines:
American Airlines
Continental Airlines
Southwest
Delta
United
US Airways
Cities with direct flights: 24
Daily passenger flights: 188
Annual passenger volume: 3,500,000
Pounds of mail/freight: 72,435,677
Richmond International Airport is located in Henrico County, five miles east of Richmond, one mile south of I–64.
Major Airlines:
Air Canada
AirTran
American Airlines
Continental Airlines
Delta
JetBlue Airways
United
US Airways
Vision
Airlines
Cities with nonstop direct flights: 21
Daily passenger flights: 170
Annual passenger volume: 3,500,000
Pounds of mail/freight: 121,571
PORTS
The unified ports operated by Virginia International Terminals, Inc. are shipping almost thirteen million tons of general cargo annually and growing. More than 75 shipping lines sail to over 250 ports of call throughout the world.
Hampton Roads is a world leader in coal export shipments, and other bulk cargo includes grains and petroleum. More than 43 million tons of cargo is shipped through Hampton Roads annually. The channel has been deepened to a 50–foot depth.
Newport News Marine Terminal has the best truck access of any general cargo facility in Hampton Roads. The entrance to the terminal is only blocks away from I–664 on–off ramps. The I–664 bridge tunnel provides convenient access to U.S. highways leading south and west from the Hampton Roads Region. Newport News Marine Terminal is the closest port for trucks traveling east on I–64 from Richmond and the most convenient port for trucks entering Hampton Roads from the South. Visit www.vaport.com for more information.
| Newport News Marine Terminal | |
| Cargo handled | Containerized, break bulk, roll on/roll off, LASH, project cargo
|
| Berths | 2 container berths
4 break bulk berths |
| Cranes | 4 container cranes, one with 182 ton heavy capacity lift |
| Storage | 394,000 square feet on pier transit
256,000 square feet off pier dry storage warehouse Open yard: 43 acres 4 fumigation chambers |
| Access | Port entrance less than l/4 mile from I–664 on/off ramps |
| Direct Rail | (CSX) 42,720 ft. including on-pier trackage for roll on/roll off service |
| Norfolk International Terminal/Portsmouth Marine Terminal | |
| Cargo handled | Container, break bulk, roll on/roll off |
| Berths | 9,270 linear feet of marginal wharf
8 container berths 13 break bulk berths 1 roll on/roll off berth |
| Cranes | 16 container (3 with Suez size capacity); 1 gantry |
| Storage | 1,460,000 square feet on pier transit
1,094,471 square feet off pier dry storage warehouse 80,000 square feet cold storage and cold storage warehouse 260 480V–recepticals for reefer containers 68,005 TEU container (3–4 high) Chassis: 2,702 containers 2 fumigation chambers |
| Access | NIT 2.5 miles east of I–64, via Terminal Boulevard
PMT via U. S. Route 58 Norfolk Southern railway serves both terminals |
| Dominion Terminal Associates/Pier IX Terminal Company | |
| Cargo handled | Coal |
| Capacity | 27.5 million tons annually (1.7 million tons storage capacity) |
| Unique features | Above ground storage allows custom blending of coal grades |
| For more information visit www.dominionterminal.com | |
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