Ciner Enterprises has committed to using local union labor to build and operate a state-of-the-art soda ash export terminal at the Port of Longview.
Specific job numbers are still guesses as the parties continue to work with engineering firms to finish design plans for the $125 million facility. But the project would take about two years to build, and it would support family-wage construction jobs during that span.
Ciner said it will also use members of the Longview-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union 21 to operate the terminal. (It would be nearly impossible to avoid using union longshoremen under the union’s contract with the port.)
The export facility could support around 20 permanent full-time jobs when it is complete, according to an early draft project proposal. That number was a preliminary estimate and could change.
Construction is expected to start in early 2019, according to the fact sheet, but the project is still facing a number of hurdles.
