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The Port of Longview is looking to deepen the Columbia River three feet at eight of its berths so ships can unload more cargo, port officials said Tuesday. The estimated $3 million project would allow the port to take full advantage of the newly deepened Columbia River ship channel, which was completed this summer, Ken O’Hollaren, [...] Some 20,000 tons of trash has piled up at Campbell Industrial Park since Hawaiian Waste Systems was awarded the contract in September to begin shipping Oahu’s trash to the mainland [Port of Longview, WA]. As the delays dragged on, Hawaiian Waste Systems had been cited by the Health Department for storing 20,000 tons of trash in [...] A straddle carrier handing containers at the Port of Tacoma's North Intermodal yard and Husky Terminal. Photo by Port of Tacoma. A comprehensive look at Washington’s ports as an engine for economic development is the subject of a legislative study committee when it meets in Tacoma on July 9. The Legislative Committee on Economic Development and [...] With the newly deepened 43-foot Columbia River channel, local ports and shippers are gearing up to take full advantage of the opportunity to enhance the Northwest’s important role as an international trade gateway. Dave Hunt, executive director of the Columbia River Channel Coalition At the Port of Longview, new tenant EGT Development LLC is currently constructing [...]
Chinook Ventures is near the Port of Longview on the Columbia River. Local activists say the private dock undermines the port by not following the same laws that protect the river. Click on the image to read the Daily News article. Longview-based Chinook Ventures is facing possible eviction by state regulators following repeated [...] Federal officials Thursday cleared the way for a Seattle company to start shipping Honolulu garbage to Central Washington through the Port of Longview. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (has) said the project will not pose any significant risk to the environment. As soon as the agency and Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC sign a compliance agreement, the [...] 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 [...] Chinook Ventures, long a thorn in the side of Washington agencies that oversee clean air and water laws, has now arrived in Oregon. The Port of Astoria, Ore., has leased part of North Tongue Point’s Pier 2 to a 450-foot cement barge, Katie B, owned by Chinook Ventures Inc. of Longview, Wash. Chinook Ventures was fined $40,000 [...] The nation’s thirst for renewable energy in the past decade has proven lucrative for regional ports that have thrived from importing and storing wind turbines. But wind energy manufacturers are looking toward more domestic production, and political pressure is mounting against sending U.S. stimulus money overseas. Those factors make the future uncertain for the sizeable [...] 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 [...] Shipping of O’ahu garbage to the Mainland has been pushed back yet again, this time until at least the end of April. City and state officials last week said they’ve been told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it won’t be until then that Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC gets the OK to send barges [...] The 36 new silos at the Port of Longview. Click on the image to read the article in the Capital Press. A new grain terminal at the Port of Longview, Wash., will increase export capacity in the Northwest, according to its developers. The Export Grain Terminal is a joint venture of global agricultural and shipping [...] Port of Longview The more than two-decades-long Columbia River channel-deepening project is nearing completion. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to finish dredging the deeper shipping channel from Astoria to Portland before the end of the year. … That extra three feet of depth in the shipping channel is essential for the new generation [...] 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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