The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay won’t open its railroad till Sept. 1, the port commission announced at its monthly meeting Thursday.
The port had been scrambling to open in June, then July, to meet a need expressed by Roseburg Forest Products. The company plans to bring logs via rail from the Midwest to its North Spit site for chipping and shipping. But it turns out that Roseburg Forest Products won’t be ready for the rails until Sept. 1.
Governor John Kitzhaber is about to a sign a bill passed in the legislature May 11 that clarifies the port’s jurisdiction over its whole 133-mile rail line from Coquille to Eugene, not just the part in its taxing district.