First Vessel Loaded at EGT Terminal

First Vessel Loaded at EGT Terminal

First Vessel Loaded at EGT Terminal

I’m KayDee Gilkey with the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report.

After seven long years of planning and construction the first vessel was loaded at the EGT Terminal in Longview, Washington last week. This is an important milestone in the process of bringing the grain export terminal fully online.

Rob Cresswell, Director of Wheat Origination for EGT, LLC, shares the exciting details of this first vessel being loaded with more than 57,000 metric tonnes of Pacific Northwest soft white wheat.

Cresswell: “It is headed to Korea and will have more than 2 million bushels of white wheat grown in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.”

During his presentation at last week Ag Expo’s Farm Forum, Cresswell shared that the Pacific Northwest was the world’s most important food corridor.

Cresswell: “The Pacific Northwest has always been an important corridor because of our proximity to the Pacific Rim and the Asian countries the growth areas of the world. The largest growth in both population and wealth is concentrated right off our coastline. We already grow the wheat along on the Northern tier, that is from Minnesota all the way out to Oregon. That is where the grain comes from and it is a natural flow to go straight to the West and to the food buyers.”

EGT operates the first export grain terminal built in the United States in over twenty-five years. It is a $200 million state-of-the-art facility.

I’m KayDee Gilkey with the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
 

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