Infrastructure & Data
No matter the size or type of business, you can rest assured that New Kent County has the advanced utility, communication and transportation network necessary to help drive your enterprise into the future.
- 20 Miles West
- 9 Scheduled Passenger Carriers
- 3 Overnight Cargo Carriers
- 50 Miles East
- 3 Scheduled Passenger Carriers
- Norfolk International Airport
- 74 Miles East
- 7 Scheduled Passenger Carriers
- 3 Overnight Cargo Carriers
- 128 Miles North
- 31 Scheduled Passenger Carriers
- 21 Scheduled Int´l Passenger Carriers
- 39 Direct international destinations
- 25 Overnight Cargo Carriers
- New Kent County Airport W96
- Middle Peninsula Airport
Commercial Air Service
Richmond International Airport
Newport News/Williamsburg Int'l Airport
Dulles International Airport
General Air Service
I-64
Bisects
New Kent
I-295
5 Min.
West
I-895
10 Min.
Southwest
I-95
15 Min.
West
I-85
30 Min.
Southwest
I-288
30 Min.
Southwest
I-64 @
State Route 155averages of over 57,000 vehicles daily.
I-295 South
@ I-64averages of over 71,000 vehicles daily.
Interstates & Road Traffic
Interstates & Highways
Interstate Traffic Count
Motor Carriers
Over 100 trucking firms serve the area.
Freight Rail Service
Norfolk Southern Corporation
CSX Corporation
- 2006 TEUs 1,981,955
- 2006 Tonnage 50,638,000
Deep-Water Ports
Virginia Port Authority (Hampton Roads)
Virginia´s strategic mid-Atlantic location and unparalleled transportation infrastructure offer steamship lines and shippers unbeatable access to two-thirds of the U.S. population with more than 75 international shipping lines and one of the most frequent direct sailing schedules of any port. Virginia has the best natural deepwater harbor on the U.S. East Coast. Fifty-foot deep, unobstructed channels provide easy access and maneuvering room for the largest of today´s container ships. Virginia ports are located just 18 miles from the open sea on a year-round, ice-free harbor. Virginia ports have long maintained a reputation for efficient and uncongested intermodal service.
The bottom line is in the numbers: The Port of Virginia transports more intermodal containers to more cities faster and more efficiently than any other port in the United States. As the largest intermodal facility on the U.S. East Coast, Virginia offers six direct-service trains to 28 major cities each day. More than 50 motor-carrier companies offer full freight-handling and load-consolidation services. A modern network of interstate and local highways permits fast, direct inland motor-freight transportation to any point in the United States.
Norfolk International Terminals (65 miles)
NIT is home to the world´s largest container cranes. These Suez-class container cranes, each measuring 219 feet are the largest in the world. They can work ships with containers stacked 22 across, moving as many as forty 50-ton containers in an hour. Recently completed, NIT North has effectively doubled the cargo handling capacity of the terminal.
Portsmouth Marine Terminal (71 miles)
This terminal include refrigerator hook-ups, specialized warehouse space, fumigation facilities and straddle-carrier container stacking.
Newport News Marine Terminal (56 miles)
Newport News Marine Terminal (NNMT) has gained a reputation as the premier steel and project cargo handling port on the U.S. East Coast. NNMT boasts various heavy-lift crane capabilities , warehouse space , and container cranes.
Port Of Richmond (30 Miles)
The Port of Richmond is Central Virginia’s domestic and international multi-modal freight and distribution center on the James River serving waterborne, rail and truck shippers throughout the Mid-Atlantic States.
The Port handles containers, temperature-controlled containers, breakbulk, bulk, neo-bulk, livestock cargo and service to northern Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, Iceland. Upon inducement.. the Mediterranean, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Electricity
The County receives electric service from Dominion Resources, one of the nation's largest producers of energy. The company's asset portfolio consists of about 26,500 megawatts of power generation, 6,000 miles of electric transmission, about 6.3 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves, 7,800 miles of natural gas pipeline and the nation´s largest natural gas storage system. Dominion also serves retail energy customers in 11 states. Corporate headquarters are in Richmond, Va.
Natural Gas
Virginia Natural Gas is the service provider for New Kent County. Currently natural gas is available in the Bottoms Bridge area with service extending eastward along Route 60 and then northward along Route 106 to Talleysville.
Water & Sewer
New Kent County provides water and sewer service to prime economic development areas at the four I-64 interchanges, along Route 33 Corridor and in the Courthouse area. Each interchange area has water storage capacity of approximately one million gallons and the county's Parham Landing Waste Water Treatment facility has been expanded to a 3MGD capacity.
Telecommunications
New Kent County offers an array of telecommunications through all major regional and national wired and wireless carriers. High-speed Internet access is available in commercial and populated residential areas through Cox Cable and Verizon.