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The East Side tunnel was the largest sewer construction project ever undertaken by the City of Portland. A contractor, Kiewit-Bilfinger Berger (KBB), used a tunnel boring machine that was 300 feet (91 m) long and had a cutting head that was 25 feet (7.6 m) in diameter. In addition to the tunnel and the pipe, the project involved building seven ...
The Southwest Corridor is a proposed public transportation rail line in and near Portland, Oregon for TriMet's MAX Light Rail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] TriMet has now decided in the seen plans in Forward Together 2.0 .
The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon, as a non-union spinoff, for LTL hauling. In 2009, Con-way Freight reported revenues of over $2.6 billion. [ 4 ] In 2015, Con-way Inc., including Con-way Freight and sibling company Con-way Truckload , was acquired by XPO, Inc. , a primarily non-asset logistics company ...
Consolidated Freightways was founded on April 1, 1929 by Leland James in Portland, Oregon. Originally a single truck LTL operation, in the early days James combined four local short-haul carriers in the Portland area into a single carrier. At the beginning, the company primarily focused on the Portland area before expanding into the region. [1]
Albina Engine & Machine Works was a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] [2] It was located in the Albina area of Portland along N. River Street and N. Loring Street. [1] [3] Albina Engine & Machine Works was founded in 1904. The shipyard produced a number of freighters during World War I, but operated ...
After a January 2004 Portland-area snow and ice storm that shut down the entire two-line MAX system for a day and a half, [52] TriMet decided to install second, ice-cutting pantographs on some Type 1 light rail vehicles, [24] which it would run (empty) all night under certain weather conditions, to prevent ice from building up on the overhead ...
The company's main domestic production facility was located in Forest Grove, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. [20] The 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) facility employed about 800 people and was the city's largest employer. [20]
Diamond S Shipping's subsidiaries include DSS Vessel II LLC, Diamond S Shipping III LLC, and Diamond S Management LLC. The parent or holding company is Diamond S Shipping Group Inc.,"one of the world’s largest owners and operators of medium-range tanker vessels, which crisscross the globe as crucial cogs in the transoceanic shipping trade." [2]