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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Currently, the Port of Baltimore and Port of Virginia (in Norfolk) are the only East Coast ports that can accommodate the large ships. These ports are reminding cross-country destinations that they can still get containers to them faster over land than it will take the big ships traveling through the Canal to reach East and Gulf Coast Ports.

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MAY 19, 2016

The Port of Virginia and the Port of Baltimore met the requirements well over a year ago; several other ports are racing to be ready by the middle of next year, when shipping through the Canal is expected to surge to an annual rate of more than 360 million tons. Will the expanded Panama Canal finally be open for business next month?

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

The two remaining sites were in the middle of heavily traveled air corridors in the East: New York’s Mohawk Valley and Virginia Tech (in a joint effort with Rutgers University in New Jersey). Should commercial drone flights be permitted before defenses against rogue drones are perfected? Apple pickers, get ready to duck.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

In 1977, the 1,700-foot arch of West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge finally wrested the steel-arch length record from Bayonne. The added height is needed to accommodate huge container ships traveling from an expanded Panama Canal to terminals in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island on the Kill Van Kull.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Rounding out the top five in Best Business Climate are Virginia, which is luring major government contractors to relocate their headquarters to the state (Northrop made the move, and VA is courting Lockheed); Florida, where Gov. Virginia maintained its leadership in our Economic Growth Potential category with a second-place finish.

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JANUARY 8, 2016

The expanded Canal will permit super-sized Post-Panamax container vessels to travel directly to the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. The big ports of Virginia, Baltimore and Miami already are at that depth. for the first time. Savannah is deepening its harbor to 47 feet from 42 feet, and aims to complete the project in 2018.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Even Utah’s international airport is on top of its consistency game: last year Travel+Leisure ranked Salt Lake City International Airport the most punctual airport in America, the fifth such ranking for the airport since 2008. Today you can no longer talk about film without talking about digital production,” says Virginia Pearce.

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