In a Tuesday, February 21, Lewiston Tribune story, Port of Lewiston manager David Doeringsfeld stated that Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil has scheduled no additional tar sands processing plant parts to move through the port.  Like the equipment of two companies contracted by the oil giant, two large cranes that load modules onto trailers will also be dismantled and removed from the port by the end of March.  But Imperial Oil spokesman Pius Rolheiser asserts that his firm has not made decisions about exact numbers of megaloads on specific routes for an approved second phase of plant construction and expansion to a similar capacity as the first, expecting completion by the end of 2012.  Although all of Imperial Oil’s original 207 transports have either almost vacated Highway 95 or are currently moving out of the Port of Pasco up Highway 395, a second wave of a similar amount of South Korean-made split-height components could pummel our Northwest/Northern Rockies highways soon.  Meanwhile, two other companies have inquired about shipping through the port an unknown number of oversized wind turbine and pressure vessel pieces.

(From WIRT Newsletter)

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