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This Port of Grays Harbor photo shows longshore workers driving imported autos off a ship. The port has also gained export business, including exporting Jeeps to China that formerly passed through East Coast ports. The Port of Grays Harbor, WA, says its first-half export activity has more than doubled over the same period last year. [...] A draft lease for Westerlund Log Exports use of pier three will be presented to the Port of Astoria commission next week. A lease for pier one was previously affirmed. The state needs to sign off on the port’s new strategic business plan, which includes use of pier three for part of the log export [...] In the past, Port of Tacoma officials’ energy was targeted toward high-dollar container development. … Now, with orders from the Port of Tacoma Commission to right its financial ship, port officials are looking back to less troubled times and less glamorous business. Last fall, the port leased about 16 acres of the 26-acre log export facility [...] Port of Astoria, OR Federal funding is sought to help improve pier three at the Port of Astoria. That’s the long term intended site of Westerlund Log Handlers export business, which would balance its presence at pier three with Englund Marine and a relocated boat yard. Before deciding on pier three, the commission wrestles which [...] Rising log and grain exports to Asia boosted Port of Longview revenue 27 percent in the first quarter of 2010, as the port showed it could thrive without wind energy imports. The port reported Tuesday that it pulled in $7.3 million in revenue during the first three months of the year, up from the $5.8 million [...] The now-crumbling S.S. Pasley ship, seen here from the Yaquina Bay, was the base of Newport's cargo dock for several decades. More than 50 years ago, dock builders in Newport sank two concrete Navy ships in Yaquina Bay, and built docks on top of them. Port of Newport officials long planned to reestablish the port’s [...] Following a vote to lease Pier 1 for log exports, the Port of Astoria held a "dress rehearsal" of what it will be like maneuvering cruise ship tourists through a log yard. Click on the image to read the Daily Astorian article. The Port of Astoria Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a five-year [...] Logs were historically important in Astoria, as seen in this 1974 photo. The new owner of the Warrenton sawmill says a log export operation at the Port of Astoria would put the mill at risk by cutting into local timber supply.The CEO of Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc., sent a letter to Port Commission President Bill [...] Bill Hunsinger is the Astoria Port Commission President and a member of ILWU Local 50. Click on the photo to read the Daily Astorian article. A lengthy presentation by Bill Hunsinger, president of the Port of Astoria Commission, to the Astoria City Council Monday, failed to convince Astoria Mayor Willis Van Dusen that a return [...] Longview's Berth 9 will be the site of the new $200 grain elevator buit by EGT Development, Inc. Click on the photo to read the Longview Daily News. The Port of Longview increased its revenue 7 percent from 2008, when it hauled in $23.5 million. Before then, the port had never broken the $20 million [...] Longshoremen stand atop log rafts and sit inside crane cabins while loading logs into the cargo hold of the ship Koombana Bay, the first log ship to be loaded in Port Angeles since the year 2000. Click on the image to read the Peninsula Daily News article. Logs from West End forests were lifted aboard [...] |
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