Port of Coos Bay
{{#badges: CoalSwarm |Navbar-Coalexports}} Port of Coos Bay is located on the Oregon coast. It is the largest deep-draft coastal harbor between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, and is Oregon's second busiest maritime commerce center after the Port of Portland.
The port was damaged on March 11, 2011 by a tsunami caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan.[1]
In July 2011, it was reported that the port in Coos Bay, Oregon was considering coal exports. "We are in discussions with coal developers and have entered into nondisclosure agreements with those companies," Port of Coos Bay CEO Jeff Bishop. "We don't want anyone to be surprised."
Bishop stated the arrival of one coal train per day would create 100 ship calls per year. However, coal exports would bring too many ships for the cargo terminal to handle, stated Bishop. "If any coal terminal is developed in Coos Bay, it would have to be a stand-alone terminal."[2]
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- ↑ Jung, Helen; Jeff Manning (March 12, 2011). "Waves bring destruction to Oregon's south coast", The Oregonian.
- ↑ "CB could become coal port again" Gail Elber, The World, July 23, 2011.
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