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Port of Tacoma Plans $210M Project

TACOMA, WA-The Port of Tacoma plans to build the largest single container terminal north of Los Angeles as well as the largest construction project in the Port's 85-year history, for Evergreen Marine Corp., a Taiwan-based global carrier.

By Gina Binole | Updated on January 10, 2003

TACOMA, WA-The Port of Tacoma is planning a $210 million project, which it describes as the largest single container terminal north of Los Angeles. It also marks the largest construction project in the Port’s 85-year history.

Scheduled for completion in 2004, the facility will be utilized by Evergreen Marine Corp., which is relocating operations from Terminal 4 to the Pierce County Terminal.

According to Brendan Dugan, the Port’s Senior Director of Marketing and Trade, the 171-acre Phase 1 terminal will have an annual capacity of more than 480,000 container lifts — or approximately 840,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). When Phase 2 is complete, the facility will be 237 acres total with an annual capacity of approximately 1.2 million TEUs. The Port of Tacoma finished 2002 with a record volume of 1.44 million TEUs.

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