HAMPTON ROADS DEVELOPMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 12

HAMPTON ROADS DEVELOPMENTS.

Coal carriers using Hampton R<iads (U.S.A.) as their terminus have under considerations plans whereby the port wall become the best equipped coal jwrt in the United States. A steel pier' to cost at least 2,600,000 dollars will be built-by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway at Newport News mext" spring, -i the construction of their pier bfeing a feature of a big project calling for the expenditure; of over 15,000,000 dollars by 'that railroad in the East. The Norfolk and Western Eailway has begun the electrification of two of 'its piers at Lambert's Point, which will provide one of the greatest single coal terminals in the world, with three piers equipped with, all modern devices and using 120-ton coal dumpers. The Virginia Railway . : has made surveys for the reconstruction of another steel pier at Sewall's Point^JThe project is expected to cost 3,000,000-dol-lars, and the plans for thtpier are understood to have been drawn. This additional coal-handling equipment will more than double the aggregate capacity of Hampton Roads piers. The Norfolk and Western improvement alone will increase the capacity of those piers by between j 500,000 and 800,000 tons per month. The new pier of the Virginian should be capable of dumping anywhere from 500jOOO tons per month up to 750,000 tons or more, while the Chesapeake and Ohio pier should be of equal capacity.