The vessel skips the port
Your box lands elsewhere on the coast and the tariff that applies is the one where it landed.
Who pays depends on the cause: the carrier for its own schedule change, the shipper for a late gate-in.
Port profile · Norfolk, Virginia · figures read 07/26–07/29/2026
Port of Virginia carries a $270 median under a name it does not use, and appears to publish the dwell table this site has been missing
⚑ The short answer
- Port of Virginia carries a median of $265 for the first paid day across six tariff lines, and not one of those lines names it. It is the only port on this site with a published median and no rate line bearing its name: New York, Los Angeles with Long Beach and Port Everglades are named separately, and Savannah has one line naming it even though its group does not.
- Norfolk is what every carrier tariff calls this port and Virginia is what this catalogue calls it, so a reader searching their own tariff for Virginia will find nothing. The results add two more names for the same place — Port of VA and Hampton Roads — and three further Virginia port names whose relationship to it we have not read.
- US container ports publish dwell without saying which dwell they mean, and this one appears to be the exception. The results for this port read as a table separating gate movements from rail movements across three terminals, with a figure of 45 hours in it. We have not opened that source, so its existence is published here and none of its values are.
- Port of Virginia returns no questions block and no AI overview on this query, and the results carry Google's own message that the word dwell is missing from documents it ranked — on a query that names dwell. No port authority document, no local fee and no volume figure has been read here, and the live map the results offer is located and unopened.
The tariffs call it Norfolk · this catalogue calls it VirginiaA median with no tariff line bearing its nameA labelled dwell table located and unopened
- What the tariffs call it
- Norfolk — search your own tariff for that word
- Other names in circulation
- Port of Virginia · Port of VA · Hampton Roads
- Terminal codes seen in the results
- POV · NIT · VIGprinted as they appear; none expanded, because a wrong expansion travels to a booking
- Neighbouring Virginia ports named alongside it
- Newport News · Portsmouth · Richmondwhether these are facilities of this port or separate ports is unread in both directions
- CBP port code
- not checked yet
- UN/LOCODE
- not checked yet
- Port authority free-time rule
- not checked yet
$270Median first paid day — four carriers name this port9 tariff lines name it or price it through a group · nine US import demurrage tariffs · read 07/28–08/01/2026
$487Median first paid day, working reefer — 1.80× the dry boxspecial equipment $435, tank $425, dry $270 — and the reefer clock is half the dry one · nine US import demurrage tariffs · read 07/28–08/01/2026
locatedA dwell table separating gate from rail across three terminalsfound, not read — the most valuable unread source on this site for dwell
unreadContainer volumeno figure read for this port — gap D
unreadFree time and the start hourfrom the same group lines; no authority rule located — gap B
Where this port sits in the tables, and why the answer is a group rather than a port
Port of Virginia has no volume figure in our reading and therefore no place in any size table here — and the number it does have is more interesting than a position would be. The $260 median first paid day on this page belongs to a category rather than to this port: six tariff lines price it, and not one of them writes its name.
That is why the figure is identical to Savannah’s to the dollar, along with the range and the spread. The same six group lines price both ports, and Savannah’s seventh line — the one that does name it — sits exactly at the median and moves it by nothing. Against the port that carriers do name, and name more often than any other, the contrast is worth a page of its own — it is linked above.
Nine US import demurrage tariffs · read 07/28–07/29/2026.
No carrier singles this port out, and no authority rule has been located for it
Port of Virginia is singled out by none of the nine carriers. Only two US ports are given their own free-time line anywhere in those documents — New York by COSCO and Savannah by Yang Ming — and this port shares Savannah’s rate group without sharing its carve-out.
Port of Virginia also has no authority rule we could locate, which is weaker than the cell on the Los Angeles or New York profiles where the document at least ranks in the port’s own results. The three start hours this site holds belong to other ports and are shown below labelled with whose they are.
How this profile is built · what we are paid
- Every figure below carries the document it was read from and the date it was read. A figure we have not read does not become a number: the cell says whether the document is unpublished, located but unopened, or simply not checked yet.
- The port’s own tariff outranks anyone’s summary of it, including ours — where the rule or tariff number is known it is printed so you can cite it.
- No port, terminal or carrier has paid to appear on this page or to be described in any particular way, and no link on this site is a referral link.
Container discharged at Norfolk · the free time comes from a group line that never names this port
discharge
clock starts — hour unread
first paid day
free time runs
charges accrue
| Whose tariff | Scope | The clock starts | Source · read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Ports Authority | Savannah, Rule 34-025 | first 12:01 AM after discharge | GPA Rule 34-025 · read 07/26/2026 |
| Maersk | Los Angeles and Long Beach imports | first 3:00 AM after discharge | Maersk, USA Imports · read 07/26/2026 |
| Seaboard Marine | US imports | first 08:00 of the first working day after discharge | Seaboard Marine, 11/05/2024 · read 07/26/2026 |
The cost stack at Norfolk, with one figure that is not this port's own
Port of Virginia carries one number on this stack and five empty lines, and the number needs its caption more than any other figure on this site: $260 is the residual group’s rate, from six lines that price ports the documents decline to name. Range $165 to $300, spread 1.8 — identical to Savannah’s for the same reason.
The empty lines are empty for two different causes. Terminal storage, terminal handling, local fees and chassis are our search at this port. Drayage is unpublished at every port in the country, which is a different kind of nothing.
What a 40-foot import container picks up at Norfolk, and how much of it we can price
One line of the six carries a figure here, and that figure belongs to a group of ports rather than to this one.
What terminal handling costs where anyone publishes it: what terminal handling costs by port. The same stack ranked across every port, where the tariffs do name one: the cost stack ranked port by port.
Nine US import demurrage tariffs · read 07/28–07/29/2026.
Who can invoice you at Norfolk, and which document sets the rate
| Charge at Norfolk | Billed by | Owed by | The document that sets it | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrier demurrage | Ocean carrier | Consignee or the counterparty named on the invoice, not both | the carrier’s US import tariff, through a group that does not name this port | $260 median · $165–$300the category’s figure, not this port’s ownsix group lines · read 07/28–07/29/2026 |
| Terminal storage | The marine terminal | Cargo interest, via the carrier | a terminal tariff we have not read | not checked yetgap A, at all three terminals |
| Terminal handling | Ocean carrier | Whoever the Incoterm assigns | the carrier’s tariff, by port | not checked yet |
| Local fees | The port authority or the terminal | By fee | a fee schedule we have not located | not checked yetgap J |
What an empty-looking cell means: not checked yet — we have not read the document yet
One thing we cannot claim about how this port bills. No line-demurrage-only row was recorded here, and at New York every such row in the whole reading appears. That difference is an absence in our extraction rather than an established property of this port, and it is written that way on purpose.
Three terminal codes in the results, and none of them expanded here
Port of Virginia appears in the results as a multi-terminal system, and three abbreviations travel with the dwell figures: POV, NIT and VIG. None is expanded here. We have not opened a source that defines them, and a wrong expansion is the kind of error a reader carries into a booking.
| Code as it appears | What it stands for | Address | Gate hours and appointments |
|---|---|---|---|
| POV | not checked yetnever expanded from memory | not checked yetgap H | not checked yet |
| NIT | not checked yet | not checked yetgap H | not checked yet |
| VIG | not checked yet | not checked yetgap H | not checked yet |
What an empty-looking cell means: not checked yet — we have not read the document yet
Why the terminal matters more here than the codes suggest. The dwell material that appears to exist for this port is broken down by terminal. The terminal on your booking decides which row of that table applies to you — and that table is the source we have not opened.
This port appears to publish the labelled dwell nobody else does
Port of Virginia appears to publish the thing the dwell ranking says nobody publishes: a table that says which dwell each figure is. What survives in our capture is its structure — gate movements separated from rail movements, across three terminals — and not one of its values.
That is why the status below is located rather than read. A figure of 45 hours appears in the same material and which cell it belongs to does not survive either, so it is reported as an observation and adopted as nothing.
| Figure | What it measures | Status of the number |
|---|---|---|
| found, not read | a table separating gate from rail dwell across three terminals — at this port | structure located in the results; no value readseen 07/26/2026 |
| 45 hourswhich cell of that table it belongs to does not survive in our capture | unknown — reported, not adopted | observation about the resultsseen 07/26/2026 |
| found, not read | a live cameras and map page for this port | located, not openedgap E |
| 3.1 to 6.75 days | the spread at Los Angeles in one season — another port’s | quoted in the market, no documentsearch results · read 07/26/2026 |
| about 20 hours to 9.1 days | the spread at Savannah across three measures — another port’s | quoted in the market, no documentsearch results · read 07/26/2026 |
What an empty-looking cell means: found, not read — the document exists and is identified, but we have not opened it
A dashboard is a snapshot; a table that labels which dwell each figure is, is what this subject actually needs. Opening the one that appears to sit at this port is the cheapest win available on the whole site for that gap. Which ports are backed up right now, and on which measure: which ports are backed up right now.
Local fees at Norfolk, and the two read anywhere on this site
Port of Virginia local fees: not checked. The two rows carrying figures below belong to other ports and are labelled with them, so the shape of the missing row is visible — one is a fee on the truck, the other a charge by the day.
| Fee | Port | Amount | Who pays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any local fee at this port | Norfolk | not checked yetgap J | not checked yet |
| Clean Truck Fund rate | Los Angeles, for contrast | $10 per TEU · $20 over 20 ftPort of Los Angeles · read 07/26/2026 | Motor carrier, passed through |
| Sustained Import Dwell Fee | Houston, for contrast | $45 per unit per day from day 8Port Houston · read 07/26/2026 | Cargo interest, billed by the port itself |
What an empty-looking cell means: not checked yet — we have not read the document yet
Neither figure applies here. They are on this page to show what a read local fee looks like — a rate, a trigger, a biller — so that the empty row above reads as a missing document rather than as an absent charge.
What this port publishes, and the one row where it may lead the site
Port of Virginia scores badly on seven of these eight rows and may lead the entire site on the eighth. That is unusual enough to state plainly: on dwell this port appears to publish more than any port we have profiled, and it is entered below as located rather than read, which is what keeps the ledger honest.
| What an importer needs | Published? | Read by us? |
|---|---|---|
| Dwell, broken down by terminal and movement | apparently yes — a labelled table, which no other port here offers | found, not readgap E |
| A live operations view | yes — a cameras and map page | found, not read |
| The port authority’s own tariff | not checked yetnever located — gap B | not checked yet |
| Free time in days | not checked yet | only through a group that does not name this portnine US import demurrage tariffs · read 07/28–08/01/2026 |
| The hour the count starts | not checked yet | not checked yet |
| Container volume, dated | not checked yetgap D | not checked yet |
| Terminal addresses and gate hours | not checked yetgap H | not checked yet |
| A local fee schedule | not checked yetgap J | not checked yet |
| Located but unread: two. Read: none. This ledger ranks our reading as much as anyone’s disclosure, and on the first row it says a wave 1 port may be ahead of every port we have read properly. | ||
What an empty-looking cell means: found, not read — the document exists and is identified, but we have not opened it not checked yet — we have not read the document yet
The East Coast ports compared on what can actually be compared: the East Coast ports compared.
Getting a box out of Norfolk, and the market it feeds in our map
Port of Virginia routes no inland market in our catalogue — unlike Savannah, Long Beach and Houston, no gateway page here points at it. That is a property of our map rather than of the port, and it is said that way rather than implying this port serves nowhere inland.
| Destination | How the box moves | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Any inland market | road, or rail from a ramp we have not named | not publishedgap F — no comparable drayage set exists at any US port |
| A named rail ramp | not checked yet | not checked yetno ramp is named for this port in anything we hold |
| A gateway page on this site | not applicable | not applicableour map routes no market through this port yet |
What an empty-looking cell means: not published — the source publishes no figure here not checked yet — we have not read the document yet not applicable — the measure does not apply to this row
Why the road leg has no figure at any US port: it is the one line of the five that nobody publishes in comparable form.
What goes wrong at any port, including one priced by a group
The container is rolled
It stays on the quay while the ship sails, and the cause decides the payer.
Carrier for overbooking; shipper for late gate-in or missing paperwork.
The group definition changes without this port being mentioned
This is the local one. Your rate here comes from a residual group, so a carrier can revise any enumeration anywhere in its tariff and move the number that applies to your box without writing the name of this port.
Cargo interest — and the only defence is asking which group line was applied.
The cargo is abandoned
Charges do not stop accruing because nobody collects the box.
The named consignee, and the liability survives the abandonment.
What we have not read on this block. The hold types, who lifts each one, at whose cost and within what deadline are gap Q, and the carriers’ own rollover terms are gap R. This block describes the shape of each failure and who the bill lands on; it does not publish deadlines we have not read.
Both of the first two have their own page: when the ship skips your port and what to do when the box will not move.
Your rights under US federal rule
If the invoice quotes a group your port is not named in
Port of Virginia demurrage arrives on a carrier’s invoice, not the port’s, and that invoice answers to a federal rule: 46 CFR Part 541, in force since 05/28/2024. The rule has been before the D.C. Circuit twice since, and the decision of 09/29/2025 changed who may be billed — so the text to read is the current one at eCFR, not a summary of the 2024 announcement.
The sequence specific to this port comes before any of that: establish which group line the carrier applied, ask for that group’s definition, and check that your port falls inside it. Here the definition is the entire basis of the charge, because nothing in the tariff names the port itself.
What the invoice has to contain, and how the dispute runs: the federal rules your invoice has to meet.
Descriptive, not legal advice. The tariff and the invoice in your own file govern your case.
Licensed intermediaries for the Hampton Roads market
Port of Virginia sits in a metro the results call Hampton Roads, and we have not counted it in the Federal Maritime Commission’s register of ocean transportation intermediaries. Two port areas have been counted — 95 organisations at Los Angeles and Long Beach, eleven at Savannah — and both counts belong to those two port areas rather than to this one. A register addressed by office location and a port carrying four names are a poor fit for each other, which is worth saying before anyone counts.
What this register covers, and what it does not. It covers the ocean leg. It does not license drayage carriers and it does not license terminal operators, so the absence of a company from it is not a finding about that company. Half of the route you are buying is regulated by a different agency.
FMC OTI register download · read 07/28/2026.
Two sources located at this port and neither of them opened
- serp consensusA dwell table separating gate and rail movements across three terminals · read 07/26/2026
located in the results, not opened — structure survives in our capture and no value does - serp consensusA live cameras and map page for this port · read 07/26/2026
located, not opened - verified primaryNine US import demurrage tariffs — six group lines attributed to Norfolk, none naming it · read 07/28–07/29/2026
Not even located for this port: the port authority tariff, the terminal tariffs, a volume release with a period, and the local fee schedule. How each status is defined: how every figure here is sourced.
Questions about importing through Norfolk and the Port of Virginia
What does it cost to land a box at the Port of Virginia?
A median of $260 for the first paid day across six tariff lines, with a range of $165 to $300 — and none of those six lines names this port. The figure is the rate carriers apply to ports they do not name separately, so it was set without this port specifically in view.
Why is the median the same as Savannah's?
Because they are the same six lines. Savannah has a seventh that names it, and its first paid day is $260, so it sits at the median and moves nothing. Two ports sharing a figure to the dollar is a fact about the group rather than about either port.
Is this the Port of Norfolk or the Port of Virginia?
One place. Every carrier tariff we read calls it Norfolk and this catalogue calls it Virginia, and the results add Port of VA and Hampton Roads. Search your own tariff for Norfolk; searching it for Virginia will return nothing.
Are Newport News, Portsmouth and Richmond the same port?
We have not read that. The results name all three as Virginia ports and the capture carries three terminal abbreviations alongside the dwell figures, which is consistent with a multi-terminal system — but consistent is not read, and a booking naming one of them needs the answer before anything here applies.
What is the container dwell at the Port of Virginia?
There appears to be a published table separating gate from rail movements across three terminals, and we have not opened it. A figure of 45 hours appears in the results and which cell it belongs to does not survive in what we captured, so it is reported and not adopted.
Which dwell does that table measure?
That is precisely what makes it valuable. Five different things are called dwell across this site and no other publisher says which one they mean; this source appears to label them. Until it is opened we can say the labels appear to exist and nothing about the numbers.
Why do the results say dwell is missing?
Google reports that the word is absent from documents it ranked, on a query that names it. It is the third time on this site the engine's own message has been the most useful thing in a result set, and it is a reminder that a document containing the word would not necessarily be measuring the same thing.
When does the clock start here?
Unknown to us. No port authority document has been located and no carrier singles this port out for free time — the only two any of the nine name that way are New York and Savannah, and this port shares Savannah's rate group without sharing its carve-out.
Which inland markets does this port serve?
Our map routes none through it, unlike Savannah, Long Beach and Houston, which each feed a gateway page. That is a property of our map rather than of the port, and no drayage rate set exists for any US port to answer the question with.