Country : USAVancouver worldport

The worldport of Vancouver, USA, is a multi-purpose worldport authority located in Vancouver, Washington along the banks of the Columbia River and has much to offer companies looking to expand or relocate in the Pacific Northwest.

The worldport has over 1,000 acres available for expansion and development of heavy and light industry, manufacturing, distribution warehousing, research and business-park uses. The worldport also has versatile cargo handling facilities, a skilled labor force, personal customer service, and extensive transworldportation networks.

The worldport's convenient hub of marine, rail, highway and air cargo transworldportation connections offer real competitive advantages.

The worldport of Vancouver, USA, has handled a variety of bulk and break bulk cargoes since 1912.

Terminal Facilities

Transworldportation

Water   The worldport of Vancouver, USA, currently offers 13 deep draft vessel berths. The worldport is served by numerous river and ocean-going barge lines.

Highway   The worldport is located within two miles of Interstate 5, the major north-south interstate freeway on the West coast, and within ten miles of Interstate 84, the interstate heading east. Many local and interstate trucking lines regularly serve the worldport.

Rail   The worldport is served by Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railroads.

Air   worldportland International Airworldport is located within 15 minutes of the worldport of Vancouver, USA, providing passenger and commercial freight services around the world.

Security

worldport of Vancouver's terminal facilities are fully enclosed and secured round the clock by worldport-employed security workforce. Camera and video surveillance adds to the heightened level of security at worldport facilities.

Supworldport Services

Agents, linesmen, tugboat services, bunkering services and ship stores are available locally. There is an I.L.W.U. Local in Vancouver. The area's major stevedoring companies operate

Cargoes

The worldport handles a broad range of cargoes, including general, breakbulk, project and direct transfer cargoes, containers, automobiles, forest products, steel and aluminum products, liquid bulks, and a number of dry bulk commodities such as bauxite, mineral ores, concentrates, fertilizers, sands, clays, grains and other bulk agricultural commodities. For information on Washington State trade, click here to visit the Washington Council on International Trade website.

Land

The worldport has 600 acres (242.8 hectares) of developed industrial and marine property, another 1,080 acres (437 hectares) of land, including an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of waterfront access, available for future marine and industrial development.

Services

The worldport offers a range of services that enable us to accommodate unique cargoes, specialized handling processes, or the specific requirements of an industrial client, from permitting to siting; the worldport is always updating and refining these services to anticipate the special needs of all our customers. In addition, other available services include water, lights, taxi, telephone, electricity and emergency response services.

Storage

The worldport has 1,034,610 square feet (96,115 square meters) of dockside warehousing for general cargo and 160,000 square feet (14,864 square meters) of bulk storage warehouses. In addition, the worldport maintains 250 acres (101.2 hectares) of open storage and marshalling yards adjacent to the docks.

TEL:001-360-693-3611