COVER STORY
Dredge away
Project will help port regain its status as deepest on East Coast
by Jessica Sabbath
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n May 2017, Virginia celebrated the arrival of Cosco Development, the first “ultra-large container vessel” (ULCV) to visit the Port of Virginia and the U.S. East Coast. Now these massive vessels — almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall — visit the port regularly. On a single day in March, two behemoth vessels were
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berthed at the port’s Virginia International Gateway terminal in Portsmouth. When these massive ships travel to and from the
