The Port of Bellingham signed a lease with a company that will ship timber out of the terminal to Asia. Photo by Evan Abell
The Port of Bellingham announced Wednesday that it had signed a lease with GrandCamp International LLC to export logs from this area to Asia through the Bellingham Shipping Terminal. The 5-year lease includes 5 acres of property and up to 7 acres of optional water area near the shipping terminal.
GrandCamp Managing Member Steve Grandorff said filling a typical ship would take between 1,200 and 1,400 truckloads, with a ship arriving every two or three months.
The deal will provide work for local longshoremen in terms of loading the timber onto the ships. According to a Port of Bellingham news release, it will provide work for 36 longshoremen, who will take around seven days to load a ship.