Nov 10, 2009
Port of Longview commissioners Tuesday approved the sale of $7.43 million of general tax bonds, which will pay for construction of Berth 9, the purchase of 35 acres from Simpson Timber Co. and other port projects. The bonds are...
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Archer Daniels Midland is positioning itself to take advantage of market opportunities by a strategic program of key investments. The company recently bought a mini-fleet of oceangoing cargo ships to allow it to move grain at...
Read MoreOct 30, 2009
A contractor from Chico, Calif., will begin dynamiting solid rock in the Warrior Rock stretch of the Columbia just upstream of the Lewis River. The channel-deepening project … has involved cutting the shipping lane 3 feet...
Read MoreOct 29, 2009
Bryce Olson, a commodity marketer at Pendleton Grain Growers, sees an “interesting year” ahead. “The grass seed market is still low,” Olson said. “There’ve been estimates of 400,000 acres that...
Read MoreOct 16, 2009
The Port of Portland is reporting a 34 percent decline in shipping tonnage over the last year. Spokesman Josh Thomas says that may sound bad, but compared to the free fall the port witnessed earlier this year, it’s an...
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