The local maritime community is anticipating an announcement that Iceland-based shipping company Eimskip will pull out of the Port of Richmond in favor of Hampton Roads.
David McNeel
Shipper departs Richmond
The Port of Richmond will lose its main carrier at the end of March. Belgium-based Independent Container Lines said last week that it would stop using Richmond to load and unload mid-Atlantic cargo and instead set up in Wilmington, N.C. ICL accounts for about 75 percent of the traffic at the port, which employs about… Read more »