Nissan CS may be full of crap, but they have repeatedly told me that mine is in route to long beach. Norfolk is closer yes, but the marine traffic would either have to go all the way to south america and hit the Panama Canal and back up to Virginia, or go the other way around, which is way longer, and to through the Suez Canal. Neither of these routes make much sense when you can just put freight on a train the get it across the country to a point where is can be unloaded and placed on trucks to deliver to their final destinations. I just don't really see Nissan going through all that trouble to get a ship to Norfolk, however, that doesn't mean that they aren't. Just my opinion based on what I've heard from Nissan CS as well as my old Navy experience.