BUSINESS — A wall of North Olympic Peninsula logs departs aboard ship

Published 12:01 am Monday, November 4, 2013

Photo by Russ Veenema/Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce (Click on photo to enlarge)
Photo by Russ Veenema/Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce (Click on photo to enlarge)

THE 610-FOOT cargo ship Astoria Bay prepares to depart from Port of Port Angeles Terminal 3 on Friday (Nov. 1) after spending about a week taking on debarked logs that were grown on privately owned North Olympic Peninsula forestlands.

The ship — one of the largest of the log ships that call on Port Angeles — carries a maximum of about 8 million board feet of timber for ports in Asia on its decks and in its holds.

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