Terminal 46, one of Seattle’s four major container-handling terminals, handles about 20 percent of the Port’s container terminal volume. Photo by Port of Seattle.
The Port of Seattle has won a $20 million grant to rehab and expand one of its busiest container terminals downtown, one of two projects from Washington that successfully competed for a piece of $600 million in federal grants set aside for critical transportation needs around the nation.
The award from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will pay for repairs and paving at Terminal 46. The money will also help boost cargo-handling capacity by extending the crane rail at the dock to fit in more of the largest cranes. That would allow the Port to load and unload two mammoth “super post-Panamax” ships simultaneously.