A transportation company that helps Oregon’s agricultural exporters move containers to Puget Sound ports is shutting down key facilities at the end of this month.
Northwest Container Services has sent a letter notifying customers that its locations in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., will cease operations “effectively immediately.”
For four decades, exporters of hay, straw and other farm commodities grown in Oregon have relied on its Portland facility to switch containers from trucks to rail, sending them to Puget Sound ports on the way to Asian markets…