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• Maritime Job Fair October 29th
• James River Barge Idea Gets Approval
• Virginia Port Authority Magazine Wins Top Award
  The Virginia Port Authority Magazine, The Virginia Maritimer, won the American Association of Port Authorities Periodicals Award of Excellence.
• Newport News Marine Terminal Opens a New Warehouse
• Woman awarded $1.25 million in grocery store lawsuit
• Shooting victim sues former employer, BJ's Wholesale Club

Maritime Job Fair October 29th

The Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy and McAllister Towing are hosting a Maritime Job Fair October 29th. They are looking to recruit Mates, Captains, Engineers, and Deckhands. Contact Allison at 627-3651 for more information.

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James River Barge Idea Gets Approval

The President of T. Parker Host Inc, David Host, has worked hard to get his James River Barge idea approved. For years no one would help finance this project, which would use a service barge to carry international shipping containers between Hampton Roads and Richmond. Finally with increasing fuel costs and highway traffic the Commonwealth Transportation Board approved a $2.3 million grant for the service barge in June. This program will remove almost 200 trucks a day from I-64 helping to reduce traffic on the interstate.

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Virginia Port Authority Magazine Wins Top Award

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Newport News Marine Terminal Opens a New Warehouse

The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) is scheduled to open a new warehouse at the Newport News Marine Terminal in July of 08'. This will reduce the breakbulk cargo handling in the Norfolk International Terminals, which will allow for the demolition of outdated warehouses, creating space for more containers on the 672-acre terminal. The new 200,000 square foot warehouse will hopefully attract more breakbulk business to the Newport News Marine Terminal. 

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Woman awarded $1.25 million in grocery store lawsuit

On April 11 after a two-day trial, Eloise Carroll was awarded $1.25 million by a jury after she slipped and fell at a Food Lion store.  Her attorney, Robert Mills, said "The result will make a big difference in this woman's life."

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Shooting victim sues former employer, BJ's Wholesale Club

A woman who was shot and wounded by her estranged husband after he killed her sister has filed a lawsuit against the BJ's Wholesale Club where the crimes happened in April 2006.

The lawsuit, filed by Karen Phillips in Norfolk Circuit Court in March, seeks $65 million.

Karen Phillips had been given permission to come in late that day so she could talk to her divorce lawyer and was unaware of her husband's earlier phone calls and visit to the store, said attorney C. Arthur "Brother" Rutter III, who filed the lawsuit on her behalf.

"Do you know what they did when she showed up?" Rutter said Tuesday. "They didn't even tell her."

Rutter says in the lawsuit that BJ's "had a duty to warn their employee, and to take precautions to protect her."

Rutter said Karen Phillips raised her right hand to ward off the shotgun blast. Doctors had to amputate that hand, Rutter said. The blast also hit her face and neck, and the impact caused her to have a stroke that left her paralyzed on her left side.

The case is scheduled for a hearing in May.

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