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The Virginia Port Authority is an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, reporting to the Secretary of Transportation. It is the state's leading agency for international transportation and maritime commerce, charged with operating and marketing the marine terminal facilities through which the shipping trade takes place.
Number of Employees 135
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NAICS Code Executive Offices: 921110
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Virginia Port Workers Begin Enrollment for Federal Port Security Credential
- 2008-02-29
Today, port workers, longshore workers, truckers and others at The Port of Virginia will begin to enroll in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential TWIC program. The program's goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and vessels...
Fitch Rates Virginia Port Authority's Rev Rfdg Bonds 'A+'; Outlook Stable
- 2007-02-09
NEW YORK -- Fitch assigns an 'A+' rating to the Virginia Port Authority's the authority approximately $88 million port facilities revenue refunding bonds, series 2007, scheduled for negotiated sale on or about March 13, 2007 through a syndicate led by Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. Fitch also affirms the 'A+'...
Port chief makes resignation official
- 2006-11-18
OAKLAND -- Port of Oakland Executive Director Jerry Bridges officially announced his resignation Friday to take a job at the East Coast's second largest container port. Bridges, who will become executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, said his decision to leave the Port of Oakland --...
Port of Oakland losing executive director
- 2006-11-04
OAKLAND -- Port Executive Director Jerry Bridges accepted a new job Friday as leader of the Virginia Port Authority. The move takes Bridges, 53, back to his childhood home for a job that may end up paying at least $40,000 more a year. Bridges...
Virginia Port Authority.(GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS)(GE Security)(Brief article)
- 2006-11-01
The Virginia Port Authority has joined with GE's Security business to install fixed-readers infrastructure at the Norfolk International Terminals and Portsmouth Marine Terminal to communicate with container security devices in cargo containers.
Virginia Port Authority teams with GE Security.(New Applications)
- 2006-09-01
The Virginia Port Authority has joined with GE's Security business to install fixed reader infrastructure at the Port of Virginia's Norfolk International Terminals and Portsmouth Marine Terminal to communicate with Container Security Devices CSDs mounted in oceangoing cargo containers as they pass through. This step will...
Virginia Port Authority Selects Boyden to Partner in Search for New Executive Director; Top Global Search Firm to Provide Seamless Transition for Retiring VPA Head; New Executive Director Will Continue to Expand One of Nation's Top Ports
- 2006-08-01
WASHINGTON -- The Virginia Port Authority VPA has announced that Boyden global executive search has been retained to assist in selecting a new Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director. The new port Executive Director will replace J. Robert Bray, who will retire at the end of 2007. The VPA just...
Fitch Rates Virginia Port Auth Commonwealth $21.7MM Rfdg Revs 'AA+'
- 2005-04-12
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA+' rating to $21.73 million Virginia Port Authority commonwealth port fund revenue refunding bonds (2002 resolution), series 2006. The forward delivery bonds were sold April 5 through negotiation with a syndicate led by Morgan Keegan & Company and will mature July 1,...
Official details benefits of trade with Hong Kong to Virginia port authority.
- 2004-11-17
By Joy Buchanan, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--NORFOLK, Va. -- The director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in New York, Sarah Wu, visited Hampton Roads on Tuesday to extol the benefits of trading...
Firm to expand Newport News, Va., paper importing facility.
- 2004-11-03
By Christopher Dinsmore, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--Lydall Distribution Services Inc. will expand its paper importing business at Newport News Marine Terminal, the Virginia Port Authority announced Tuesday. Lydall Distribution signed a 15-year agreement...
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