“Welcome to the community,” Port Commissioner Stan Pinnick told the company. “We’re very proud to have you.”
Scott MacKenzie, vice president of the company’s business development, said construction would begin within a week on four large tanks and support structures.
“This community has just been wonderful, top down,” he said. “Everybody that we have come in contact with has been just wonderful.”
Westway Terminals specializes in moving and storing liquid bulk around the world. They hold almost anything but oil products, often storing molasses or various chemicals. They expect to store methane on Grays Harbor and expand to other products.
MacKenzie said the company is already looking at potential second and third phases that could expand their facilities to as many as 20 tanks.
The company expects to bring about a dozen vessels into the Port each year and increase that number as the facility develops, he said. About five to 10 full-time positions could be created.
Storage company breaks ground
02.12.2009 - NEWS
Gold shovels cut into the cold, wet dirt of marine Terminal 1 on Tuesday, tossing the first scoop of what should become a new $20 million liquid bulk storage facility.
Port of Grays Harbor commissioners, city officials and county commissioners lined up next to representatives of New Orleans-based Westway Terminals, which plans to begin operations this fall.
