Puget Sound ports collaborate on logistics centre

The agreement calls for the two ports to purchase, plan and develop a South Sound Logistics Centre on a 745-acre site in Thurston County, with a deadline of December 31, 2007 to sign a joint operating agreement.

The property, a former industrial site located south of Olympia near Maytown, Washington and currently being used for gravel mining, is adjacent to the Interstate 5 highway and near a number of existing railway tracks. The planned development is likely to include facilities for handling the growing amounts of international and domestic cargo moving through the region via road and rail.

“This land provides a strategic opportunity for our two ports, and our entire region, to work together to create additional rail capacity and efficiency through the South Puget Sound and the entire state,” said Port of Olympia Commission president Steven C. Pottle.