Port of Portland

Port of Portland may refer to:

Port of Portland (Oregon)

The Port of Portland is the port district responsible for overseeing Portland International Airport, general aviation, and marine activities in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area in the United States.

The 16th Oregon Legislative Assembly created the Port of Portland in 1891. The current incarnation was created by the 1970 legislature, combining the original Port with the Portland Commission of Public Docks, a city agency dating from 1910.

The Port of Portland owns four marine terminals, including Oregon’s only deep-draft container port, and three airports. The Port manages five industrial parks around the metropolitan area, and they own and operate the Dredge Oregon to help maintain the navigation channel on the lower Columbia and Willamette rivers.

History

19th century

In 1891, the Oregon Legislature created the Port to dredge and maintain a shipping channel from the city of Portland to the Pacific Ocean. Through the years, the Port acquired the Commission of Public Docks, which operated public-use docks in Portland Harbor, and they built Portland's first airport.

Port of Portland (Maine)

The Port of Portland is the largest tonnage seaport in New England as well as a major seaport along the east coast of the United States. It is also the second largest oil port on the East Coast, processing 149,616,287 barrels (23,787,088.7 m³) of oil in 2007, mostly through the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, and the largest foreign inbound transit tonnage port in the United States.

A ferry company Casco Bay Lines, operated by the Casco Bay Islands Transit District, currently operates ferry services from the Port of Portland to several outlying islands.

From 1970-2008 the Port of Portland was connected by a seasonal (summer only) international ferry service to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Lion Ferry operated the first vessels on this route, MS Prince of Fundy (1970–76), MS Bolero (1973-76), and MS Caribe (1976–81). CN Marine operated the MV Marine Evangeline from 1978-82. Prince of Fundy Cruises and later Scotia Prince Cruises operated the MS Scotia Prince from 1983-2004. Scotia Prince was the last ferry operator to use the old city-owned International Marine Terminal before air quality issues resulted in the building being condemned over the winter of 2004-2005. The issue with the terminal building coincided with Scotia Prince Cruises announcing its termination of service on the Portland-Yarmouth route so that no ferry operated on the route in 2005. Bay Ferries began operating the high speed catamaran HSC The Cat on the route in 2006 and used the new Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. This service was canceled after the 2009 season.