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Building History

This terminal facility was set to cost $118.3 million, and would serve Holland America Lines. In the process of creating this, Terminal 30, which was altered in 2002 to handle passenger traffic, would be torn down and turned back into a 70-acre container port.

Building Notes

An article published in the Seattle Times on 08/19/2018, "'Turnaround day' a sprint for crew of cruise ship," described the process of cleaning and restockong the 936-foot-long, 86,700-ton Eurodam, a Holland America Lines cruise ship sailed to Victoria, BC, and AK. The article stated: "The ship is scheduled to depart at 4 p.m. Eurodam's hotel crew has four hours to clean and sanitize 1,052 staterooms, and less than nine hours to transfer more than 8,000 pieces of luggage and load some 350 pallets of provisions for another weeklong journey. Coming aboard will be 147,500 pounds of fresh produce, 35,000 eggs, 1,375 gallons of milk and 16,800 cans of beer and soft drinks, just to name a few." (See Derek Hall, "'Turnaround day' a sprint for crew of cruise ship," Seattle Times, 08/19/2018, p. D1, D5.) In all, 350,000 pounds of food and supplies will be loaded that nine-hour span. This rapid turnaround time and the amount of material to be loaded necessitated easy access for trucks delivering provisions and cars delivering cruise guests, as well as highly efficient transfer methods for getting supplies off of land and on board.

As noted in the article, because the port serviced a foreign-flagged liner, national or federal labor laws did not apply to those transferring goods or cleaning accommodations.

PCAD id: 9162