Port Manager Don Mann said that they are probing possibilities of a combination grant/loan from the Oregon Department of Business Development as well as a Oregon Connect Four grant award. Sum total is around $3.9 million to finish the terminal.
And when [the new dock] is finished, the port has a number of large companies that would like to become partners with the port, among them Teevin Brothers based in Rainier. … Teevin said they would put the Newport community first, with 22 family wage jobs by hiring local residents – not importing them from outside the area. It would also include more than 20 longshoremen when loading a ship that could produce more full time local longshore jobs as business grows.