VIRGINIA'S TRANSPORTATION ADVANTAGES
Virginia is a leading gateway to the world. Our integrated transportation system of highways, railroads, airports and seaports ensures that you can reach every one of your markets and get shipments from suppliers more efficiently.

Virginia is a Leading Gateway to the World

• Fourteen commercial airports serve Virginia, including two of the nation's busiest: Washington Dulles International and Ronald Reagan Washington National.
  
  
• The Port of Virginia offers world-class shipping facilities and a schedule of approximately 2,500 sailings annually to over 250 ports in 100 foreign countries. The Port, offering one of the largest intermodal networks on the East Coast, handled 1.895 million TEUs (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) in 2010, and moved more than 28% of its total business by rail.


• The Port of Richmond is a multimodal freight and distribution center located on the James River, adjacent to I-95, offering service to northern Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, Iceland, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America.
  
  
• Fourteen railroads operate on more than 3,200 miles of railway in Virginia, of which more than 3,100 miles are Class I. Two of the nation's largest railroads operate in Virginia: CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, which is headquartered in Norfolk.


• Virginia's highway system features more than 70,000 miles of interstate, primary and secondary roads, including six major interstate routes: I-95, I-85, I-81, I-77, I-66 and I-64.

Virginia's Transportation Infrastructure