As of Friday afternoon, 12 letters to the governor and port officials had surfaced objecting to APM Terminals Inc.’s bid to operate the port of Hampton Roads for 48 years.
The letters come largely from shipping lines that serve the port, but come from other groups, too.
Six were included in a letter from the Customs Brokers & International Freight Forwarders Association of Virginia Inc., a Norfolk-based trade group representing, among others, companies that function like international travel agents for cargo.
Two more were in a letter from the Tidewater Motor Truck Association, the collective voice of trucking companies operating in and around the port.
