Virginia: Hampton Roads is America’s biggest coal-exporting port. And coal exports are booming.

 

Coal exports in Hampton Roads, the nation’s biggest coal-exporting port, are collectively still on a roll.

For the first quarter of 2018, Hampton Roads shipped 10.3 million tons of coal, a 16 percent increase from 8.9 million tons in the same period a year ago, according to data from Norfolk-based T. Parker Host Inc., the largest ship agent in the nation for vessels carrying dry-bulk cargo.

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