INFRASTRUCTURE & DATA

COMMERCIAL AIR SERVICE
 

INTERSTATES
 

Freight Rail Service

Norfolk Southern Corporation

CSX Corporation

Deep-Water Ports

Virginia Port Authority (60 Miles)

Norfolk International Terminals

Portsmouth Marine Terminal

Newport News Marine Terminal

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.

2006 TEUs 1,981,955

2006 Tonnage 50,638,000

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 and livestock cargo and provides service to northern Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, Iceland, and upon inducement, to 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, with about 950 billion cubic feet of storage capacity. 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 the prime economic development areas at the four I-64 interchanges, along the 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 is being expanded to a 3MGD capacity, available in March 2009.

Telecommunications

New Kent County offers an array of telecommunications options through all major regional and national wired and wireless carriers. High-speed Internet access is available in commercial and more populated residential areas through Cox Cable and Verizon.

New Kent County, Virginia - Economic Development Authority
7324 Vineyards Parkway, New Kent County, Virginia 23124 - phone: 804-966-9631 - Email