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Huntington?

How does Huntington, West Virginia qualify as a port city? Besides being counterintuitive, I see nothing about the "port" of Huntington in the article on that city. Looks like bullcrap to me, but I'll wait a while for someone to explain . . .Unschool (talk) 07:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Huntington is a river port, with a fleet of barges handling coal and petroleum products. The port activities are described in the article at Huntington,_West_Virginia#River. A standard definition of a [port includes anywhere that ships load and unload - the article on ports also specifically includes river ports as well as inland ports. Euryalus (talk) 08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I get it now. I'm going to have to make a cerebral adjustment, though. Unschool (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source

I have reason to believe the source used for this article is incorrect. Many of the cargo tonnages are highly inflated from what I can find on the individual ports themselves. Can we have a second opinion?

Norfolk

Doesn't Norfolk, VA have a port? I don't see it listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.227.153 (talk) 19:29, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update to information

The main reference for the tonnage for this list of ports is a few years old, from 2004, and the link no longer works anyway. I found this reference for 2008; perhaps, if no one leaps forward to volunteer, I'll work on this when I can. Northumbrian (talk) 04:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and created this subpage to hold the new table as I update it before publication to the article page. Northumbrian (talk) 23:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is a 2010 update to this list. The 2008 list was never made live. -- MicahDCochran (talk) 19:19, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There is even more up todate information available at http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=900 sadly I don;t have time to include it right now. Lot 49atalk 01:13, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Port of New York City / New Jersey

New York Harbor has always figured as one the very top ports in the USA. Not even in the top 149 now or what? I've been to both NYC and Vicksburg, Mississippi recently and find it impossible to believe NYC is suddenly handling less cargo than that steamboat port. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.126.241 (talk) 03:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Elsewhere on Wikipedia the Port of New York and New Jersey is described as the nation's third largest port, and the largest port on the East Coast. So I think someone needs to fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.110.212.132 (talk) 20:16, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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