The Virginian-Pilot
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No, Santa Claus wasn’t restocking coal for all the naughty boys and girls, but Norfolk Southern did load its second-largest coal shipment ever from Lamberts Point two days after Christmas.
“The worldwide demand for coal for utilities and coke plants doesn’t take many holidays,” said Daniel D. Smith, the Norfolk-based railroad’s senior vice president of energy and properties. (Coal is baked at extremely high temperatures to produce coke, which fires the furnaces used to make steel.)
On Dec. 27, Norfolk Southern finished loading 155,522 net tons of coal into the M/V Cape Provence at Pier 6 in Norfolk. The coal came from various mines in 1,487 railroad coal cars and is destined for ArcelorMittal in Flushing, Netherlands. Capes Shipping was the ship agent/broker.
The Cape Provence loading was just shy of the record 157,645 net tons for the M/V Irongate in 1998.
Norfolk Southern has been transferring coal and coke from railroad cars into ocean going export and domestic vessels in the Lamberts Point area since 1884, when it opened Pier 1.
Railroad spokesman Frank Brown was mum on shipments to the North Pole.
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