Today, the CMA CGM MARCO POLO, a container vessel with the capacity to carry more than 16,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), is on berth and working at The Port of Virginia. This is the largest container ship to ever call the US East Coast and while here it went to Virginia International Gateway (VIG).
To recognize this historic event, CMA CGM teams, guests, Virginia’s secretary of transportation, elected officials and port partners gathered on the American Rover sailboat and cruised by the vessel as it was working. The port’s leaders used the event to emphasize two important points: 1) the value of its $800 million investment to modernize its two primary container terminals and 2) the importance of the channel widening and deepening project, which when complete in 2024, will make Virginia home to the US East Coast’s deepest port.
