Logs destined for China, Japan and Korea were on display Sunday as the Port of Olympia held tours of its marine terminal.

A retired longshoreman spoke to the crowd about how safety and efficiency go hand-in-hand at the terminal.

“We’re working with equipment that could kill you,” said Sherman Will, who spent 37 years at the port, as he spoke was surrounded by a 35-ton log stacker and other heavy machinery. Longshoreman load vessels with slings that can transfer a 30-ton load in about four minutes, he said.

From the Olympian