- Congestion on major roadways and mountain passes would be reduced as the number of truck trips per day would decrease to/from the Puget Sound.
- Containers could be moved with more speed and reliability while lowering the carbon footprint of exports via rail.
- Containers could be spotted closer to the shippers, with 24/7 availability of picking up or dropping containers in a secured yard.
- Would attract new investments in warehousing facilities and other industries supporting the agriculture market.
- Turn times could be improved so that exporters would be able to ship more of their products overseas because marine terminals would be less congested.
Interest Growing in the Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal
posted by AJOT | May 22 2017 at 01:54 PM | Ports & Terminals
QUINCY, Wash. - The Port of Quincy has recently been receiving a lot of interest and inquiries from shippers and other stakeholders about utilizing the Port of Quincy Intermodal Terminal as a westbound inland intermodal port in central Washington in which trains could be loaded at the Intermodal Terminal with ocean containers of Washington State dry agricultural products (wheat, dry corn, dry beans, hay, legumes, and other grains, etc.), and then be railed to the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma to be loaded onto ocean container ships.
In February, the NW Seaport Alliance provided a presentation/report to shippers and stakeholders in central Washington on the "Inland Port Impact on Growing the Agriculture Industry". According to the presentation, an inland port would offer the following benefits: