The Port of Grays Harbor is steaming forward with a project to double the export cargo capability from its terminal in Aberdeen.
Named the straightforward Terminal 4 Expansion and Redevelopment Project, the project, termed “transformational,” will add miles of rail, update infrastructure on the pier itself, and redevelop a former pontoon casting basin on port property into a cargo yard.
“It’ll be the biggest project the port has ever undertaken,” said Kayla Dunlap, the port’s director of government and public affairs, in an interview. “Prior to that, it was the rail improvements in 2011 and 2012. This is double that.”
The project is a partnership with Ag Processing Inc., an Omaha-based agricultural company who is the port’s biggest marine terminal customer, Dunlap said.
While the port is estimating construction costs alone will be $47 million, AGP will be investing $123 million into building the infrastructure at Terminal 4 for rapid loading of meal onto cargo ships bound for ports worldwide, the news release said. The project will also add 80 permanent jobs, according to the news release.