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including oversized components for Boeing’s widebody jet aircraft. Walter Seidl, port marketing director, said the facility’s assets include deep-draught berths to 40 ft (12.2 m), port rail service via BNSF, and strong highway links including the I-5 and routes to eastern Washington and on to the central Midwest. “We are adding 3,300 ft (1,000 m) to our


existing 5,500 ft (1,6785 m) of port track capacity,” he explained. “We have purchased a new 136-tonne capacity mobile harbour crane and three new reachstackers. We are also working with the city to improve the heavy haul corridor from the port to I-5 and will be upgrading one of our largest docks to better serve over-dimensional and containerised cargoes.” The port handles a roughly equal


import/export mix of agriculture and construction machinery, and equipment for large oil and gas projects and civil construction. “We have seen a decline in oil and gas, but increases in wind energy components, including blades exceeding 185 ft (56.4 m). Exports of agricultural equipment to China have been decreasing. Russian moves have been hit hard by a mix of a soft rouble and political issues.”


Western Towboat towed a jack-up offshore drilling platform to the Cook Inlet.


For many service providers in the PNW,


Alaska, with its focus on project-intensive energy exploration, extraction and distribution as well as mining, is an important market.


Towing and support Russ Shrewsbury, vice president of Western Towboat in Ballard, Washington, said: “About 80 percent of our business is towing and project support services to south eastern Alaska year-round, and seasonal service to other parts of the state between June and October depending on weather and ice conditions.” Shrewsbury said services to the


energy industry began to slow when Shell pulled out of Arctic offshore exploration in late 2015, but support for projects already in place or in development continues. “We moved 41,000 tonnes of heavy


equipment over Kotzebue to support long-standing zinc and lead mining operations at the Red Dog complex about 145 km (90miles) inland. It is a shallow port and iced in much of the year, so we have to move quickly. We also towed a jack-up offshore drilling platform to the Cook Inlet. And we do a lot of work for companies like Lynden/Alaska Marine Lines helping them deliver shipments to small villages and


WE THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.


The Port of San Diego specializes in specialty cargo. Everything you need, less of what you don’t.


• Open space • Flexibility • Expertise in handling breakbulk and project cargo


Move your specialty cargo from ship to ground to market much faster. That’s the special advantage San Diego offers.


Breakbulk cargo ships a little differently.


Take advantage of being different.


619-686-6300 maritimeinfo@portofsandiego.org POR T of S AN DIE GO | portofsandiego.org/cargo 114 January/February 2017 www.heavyliftpfi.com


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