Longshoremen stand atop log rafts and sit inside crane cabins while loading logs into the cargo hold of the ship Koombana Bay in Port Angeles Harbor on Monday. It is the first log ship to be loaded in Port Angeles since the year 2000. — Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News
Paige Dickerson has the story in the Peninsula Daily News:
PORT ANGELES — Logs from West End forests were lifted aboard a year-old freighter ship Monday in a three-day operation that will mark Port Angeles’ first log export operation in nearly a decade.
Eighteen longshoremen — mostly from Port Angeles — started a packed three-day schedule loading the 554-foot Koombana Bay.
When the freighter pulls out later this week, 2.2 million board feet of logs from the North Olympic Peninsula will fill up about half of the ship, said Paul Stutesman, vice president of log marketing for Merrill & Ring.
After a three-day berth in Port Angeles, the ship will head to Longview to be filled with logs before it heads out on a 15-day journey to South Korea, he said.
