Outlet: Inside Business

Fifteen members of Portsmouth’s Craddock Civic League recently toured the new Enviva Biomass wood pellet storage and distribution plant in nearby Chesapeake.  The Maryland-based company produces the pellets at a plant in Ahoskie, N.C., then trucks them to the port facility on the Elizabeth River, where they are housed in a silo, pictured.  Each month the ship transports the pellets to energy-production plants in Europe.