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The Port of Portland owns four marine terminals, including Oregon's only deep-draft container port, and three airports. The Port manages five industrial parks around the metropolitan area, and they own and operate the dredge Oregon to help maintain the navigation channel on the lower Columbia and Willamette rivers.
Container shipping through Portland has increased considerably over that same period. [8] 100 cruise ships docked in Portland in 2019, making it Maine's second-largest cruise ship port behind Bar Harbor. [9] A regional ferry service, Casco Bay Lines, also operates out of the Port of Portland.
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
Marine Terminal 6 of the Port of Portland lies immediately east of the park along the Columbia, while Terminal 5 is along the Willamette slightly south of the Columbia Slough. [2] The park is at 45°38′59″N 122°45′49″W / 45.6498384°N 122.7637106°W / 45.6498384; -122.7637106 ( Kelley Point City Park ) and rises to an ...
Portland Airport station's platform is situated at ground level just outside the main passenger terminal, near the southernmost entrance, and within 150 ft (45.7 m) of the baggage claim area. [ 25 ] [ 38 ] Prior to the 2023 renovation, it featured a wedge-shaped island platform and a glass canopy designed by ZGF Architects . [ 39 ]
In anticipation of the official start of the strike, workers at the Port of Virginia began systematically halting operations after 8:00 a.m. EST, closing the port gates for truck deliveries at noon, issuing orders for ships to leave the port by 1:00 p.m., and ceasing cargo work at 6 p.m. [6]
The pipeline was the primary reason that the Port of Portland had the largest volume oil port on the Eastern Seaboard, as more than 200 tankers delivered oil to the pipeline marine terminal annually. [5] In January 2016, the pipeline flow was slowed to a trickle. Its volume had been decreasing for several years.
Hillsboro Airport (IATA: HIO, ICAO: KHIO), also known as Portland–Hillsboro Airport, is a corporate, general aviation and flight-training airport serving the city of Hillsboro, in Washington County, Oregon, United States as well as a large amount of private/charter and general aviation traffic into and out of the greater Portland area.