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PORT FACILITIES

PORT FACILITIES

OPERATOR TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION

Dominion Terminal Associates

6 Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals Kinder Morgan Bulk TerminalsPier IX

MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES FLOOR SPACE DIMENSIONSNO. OF BERTHS WATER DEPTH RAILWAY CONNECTIONS

Concrete pile and deck.A tandem rotary car dumper; two stacker/reclaimers and one reclaimer; shiploader with 143-foot boom and 79-feet air draft. Loading rates are up to 6,500 tons per hour.

Concrete pile, concrete decked pier with traveling shiploader.

Tandom in-line rotary car dumper can unload coal at rates up to 5,000 tons per hour. The shiploader travels the length of the pier and is rated at 8,000 tons per hour.

W-84 ft. L-1,162 ft.

23 Norfolk Southern Pier No. 6 Norfolk

Norfolk Southern Railway Company Concrete deck on concrete piles, with rubber and timber fender system, supports steel superstructure and two traveling loaders.

Two tandem car dumpers dump four hopper cars to two 96-inch-wide conveyor belt systems, feeding the two loaders at a rate of 5,000 tons per hour each; loading is on the north side of the pier. Loaders are equipped with telescopic chutes.

W-88 ft. L-1,200 ft. 65 ft. air draft

W-82 ft. L-1,850 ft. 74 ft. air draft

250 ft.CSX Transportation. 48 ft. NS 50 ft. SS

2 CSX Transportation.

350 ft.Norfolk Southern.

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Perdue Agribusiness, LLC

South Elevator

Chesapeake

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