http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/30 Category: Business en-us Copyright 2012 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sat, 26 May 2012 19:10:35 -0400 - As told to Pilot writer Carolyn Shapiro We started in 1984 as a phone-in company. We did voice recordings and faxes. We have remote employees all over. Our East Coast team consists of myself, a person down in Florida and a person in New York. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/work-kurt-korte-forecaster-surfline Sat, 26 May 2012 18:46:28 -0400 NORFOLK More than half of the crew aboard the Maersk Alabama during a Somali pirate attack in April 2009 have filed lawsuits in Norfolk against the owner and operator of the ship, even as a new movie about the hijacking is in the works. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/warnings-pirates-ignored-maersk-lawsuits-say Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 The average price of regular gas has fallen below $3.50 a gallon in Hampton Roads, AAA reported Friday. The last time it was below $3.50 was Feb. 21, said Katharine Beachboard, a spokeswoman for AAA Tidewater Virginia. The regional average was $3.49 this morning, AAA’s Fuel Gauge Report said. That was down from $3.51 Thursday and $3.56 a week before. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/hampton-roads-gas-average-drops-below-350 Fri, 25 May 2012 09:59:21 -0400 SUFFOLK Ace Hardware Corp.’s new 336,000-square-foot import redistribution center on U.S. 58 is nearing completion and will open this summer. Construction of the facility in the CenterPoint Intermodal Center began last June. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/work-ending-ace-hardwares-new-suffolk-facility Fri, 25 May 2012 13:54:30 -0400 Virginia’s annual sales tax “holiday” on purchases to prepare for a hurricane begins today and continues through Thursday. The program allows consumers to save the state’s 5 percent sales tax on batteries, flashlights, bottled water, duct tape, mobile-phone chargers, first-aid kits and other products. Large items such as generators also are tax free during this week. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/va-tax-holiday-begins-hurricanerelated-items Fri, 25 May 2012 11:42:45 -0400 NORFOLK A day after state officials announced that a unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group had submitted an unsolicited proposal to operate the terminals of the Virginia Port Authority, reaction to the idea was mixed. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/apms-bid-run-virginia-ports-draws-mixed-reaction Thu, 24 May 2012 20:52:20 -0400 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Iran and an American-led naval coalition each said Thursday they responded to a distress call by a U.S.-flagged cargo ship that came under fire from gunmen in the Gulf of Oman a day earlier. But a Navy spokesman cast some doubt about whether the attack was piracy. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/navy-not-clear-if-attack-maersk-ship-was-piracy Thu, 24 May 2012 12:17:56 -0400 RICHMOND Virginians who want to stock up on batteries, bottled water and other supplies for the hurricane season will get a tax break this month. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/va-hurricaneprep-sales-tax-break-weekend Thu, 24 May 2012 05:07:40 -0400 Buy low, and sell high. It's as simple as that for Harbor Group International. The Norfolk-based real estate investment and management company announced Wednesday that an affiliate had sold a 1.1 million-square-foot office building in lower Manhattan to two investment firms. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/harbor-group-says-ny-deal-biggest-company-history Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Who's offering what? APM Terminals Inc., a unit of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and an operator of marine terminals worldwide, has submitted a proposal to the state to take over the operations of the Port of Virginia for 48 years. What would change? http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/qa-apm-offer-take-over-port-operations Wed, 23 May 2012 23:03:08 -0400