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Nauticus offers the Victory Rover Naval Base Cruises, a small fleet of boats taking people around the water to see Naval Station Norfolk and the Port of Virginia. They also offer whale watching , dolphin watching , sailing cruises, and a bus tour of the naval base.
Norfolk International Terminal. Norfolk International Terminals is the largest of the four facilities, with a land area of 648 acres (2.62 km 2). The terminal has fifty-foot-deep entrance channels at the north and south ends. The terminal is serviced by 89,300 feet (27,200 m) of rail track and 11 Suez-class container cranes.
Norfolk Southern passenger service was discontinued by the end of the 1940s. [2] The Virginian Railway passenger trains were discontinued by 1956. [3] The N&W trains ceased using Terminal Station in 1962; the last N&W train, the Pocahontas continued to 1971 at the replacement station. Today, Norfolk is served by Amtrak at the Norfolk station.
Norfolk International Airport continued to grow in the 1990s, expanding its air cargo terminal, parking facilities, and passenger terminal. In 1991, a new concourse extension with 10 additional gates was completed, along with a modern fire station and FAA air traffic control tower.
The number of cruise ship passengers who visited Norfolk increased from 50,000 in 2003, to 107,000 in 2004 and 2005. Also in April 2007, the city completed construction on a $36 million state-of-the-art cruise ship terminal alongside the pier. [78]
Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command.The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point.