K Line Quits Calls On Portland! Now Do We Want To Start Dialogue On A Lower Columbia "Super Port" And Transfer Fleet?

GRP: This is the pitch for the proposed Super Container Port at Coos Bay, Oregon

"Port officials are negotiating with APM Terminals North America, the U.S. arm of the world's largest shipping company, Dutch-based A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, to bring as many as 2 million shipping containers to Coos Bay's North Spit each year - five times as many as the Port of Portland
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The project would provide as many as 2,500 permanent local jobs and pump almost $130 million in wages into the state economy. Average wages for those jobs are expected to be $52,000, according to a port-commissioned economic development study. The study also projected that indirect effects could mean 10,000 new jobs statewide, many of them in Eugene - the containers' first stop after being taken off ships and loaded onto trains."

'K' Line pulls up Portland anchor
by Richard Read - The Oregonian

Thursday March 05, 2009, 9:31 PM

Benjamin Brink/The OregonianA container handler moves one of "K" Line's 40-foot-long steel boxes Thursday at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6. The Japanese steamship company will stop calling on Portland in April, eliminating one of the port's three international marine cargo routes.
Portland will lose crucial container service to Japan in April when a Tokyo steamship company scraps a shipping route that spans the globe.

A local manager for "K" Line, which launched the 14-city pendulum-shaped route when times were better only seven months ago, confirmed Thursday that its vessels would stop calling on Portland. The port will lose one of its two Asian shipping links, retaining a European and South American service provided by another cargo carrier....Click For Full Story Below

K Line Sidesteps Port Of Portland

Highlights of CCBofC 03-11-2009 Meeting

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS 3-11-09

Official minutes available once approved by the Board


Williams named Interim County Manager

The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to designate Assistant County Manager Nicole Williams as Interim County Manager. Good On You Nicole And Thanks!!GRP

Williams accepted the appointment and thanked the board for the vote of confidence it showed in her by its action, but she declined to accept the 7 percent salary increase that was originally proposed as part of her appointment....Click Below to Read What There Is Of The Rest



The Readers Digest Verison Or The Highlights Of 03-11-2099 CCBofC Meeting

Port Of Coos Bay Partners With Oregon Office Of Economic And Community Development To Purchase Rail Line

GRP: Should Our Own Port Of Astoria Move On Doing The Same Thing To Link The Lower Columbia With Upriver Commerce?


News Release from: Oregon Economic and Community Development STATE
PARTNERS WITH PORT OF COOS BAY TO PURCHASE RAIL LINE
Posted: February 5th, 2009 1:08 PM
Acquisition Critical to Preserve More than 750 jobs on South Coast and to
preserving vital transportation infrastructure for commerce and goods
The Oregon Economic and Community Development (OECD) Commission Thursday
approved $12.6 million in bridge loans that will enable the Port of Coos Bay to purchase the
rail line that was shut down by Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CORP)...... Read Press Release

Alternative Fuel Stations Along I-5? Why Not?

Alternative Fuels Corridor: Basic Concept
Public/Private Partnerships to Spur Development of Refueling Infrastructure
• State will allow use of land at strategic locations along the I-5 Corridor.
• Private industry will install and operate refueling/recharging infrastructure.
• State will actively

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