Paul Mattox, who has served as West Virginia's transportation secretary since 2006, will return to the private sector as the governor-elect, Jim Justice, fills his cabinet with his own appointees, according to the West Virginia Metro News Network.

Talk of foreign-trade zones is enough to make some folks’ eyes glaze over, but if your business involves moving stuff in and out of ports, FTZs can be a big deal.

ARLINGTON, Va. — A recent federal grant aimed at improving traffic mobility along Interstate 95 and the port system at Norfolk will help position Virginia as a premier freight corridor on the East Coast in the coming years, the state’s governor told regional road builders here Dec. 16.

November was a positive month for several of the top ports in North America, according to monthly statistics released in mid-December.

The Port of Virginia had its second-busiest month in its history with double-digit year-over-year gains in containerized cargo traffic for November.

As recently as two years ago, the Virginia Port Authority was losing millions of dollars annually. Now that the port's administration has gotten back to a break-even point, the board of directors is charting an ambitious course that projects to create hundreds of thousands of jobs around the state in the next half-century.

The Commonwealth of Virginia signed a deal with Konecranes to provide the Port of Virginia with 86 automated stacking cranes as part of a large-scale expansion at the Virginia International Gateway and Norfolk International Terminal over the next five years.

Two months after reporting that August was its all-time-busiest month, the port has another record-breaker on its hands.

While Nov. 8 is a paid holiday for dockworkers at the Port of Virginia, that doesn’t mean everybody will have a day off.

NORFOLK, Va. — Container volume at the Port of Virginia last month edged up 2% from its record-breaking gain in the same month a year ago.