The Port of Virginia continues to take immediate action to help mitigate the congestion that has beset Virginia International Gateway during the last week. The port announced the following measures will be taken at VIG:  • Effective Friday, March 13, the port will implement a policy to reduce the number of days an export container can dwell on all terminals to 9 from 10  • In an announcement to ocean carriers, the port extended free-time for all containers at VIG by two days  • Sunday gates have been extended through March 29: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.  • In order to reduce stack density at VIG, we will begin using barge service to move containers to Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT)  • Finalizing vessel calls to move to PMT  The port has already implemented the following congestion mitigation measures:  • Extended evening gate hours until 9 p.m., March 11-13  • Keeping empty container moves out of the gates at both VIG and Norfolk International Terminals (NIT)  • A project to segregate rail and truck cargo at VIG  • Requesting that ocean carriers evacuate as much of their cargo from the terminals as possible  • Using the 64 Express barge service to move containers between VIG and NIT in order to keep that dray traffic out of the gate