The Port of Seattle has completed construction of a concrete bridge that links Terminals 25 and 30, making the site a contiguous 70-acre container terminal.

Operator SSA Marine leases the facilities for Matson Navigation.

The T-30 section of the combined terminal facility, which currently is a cruise terminal, will be completed and ready for use as a container facility in 2009.

The port also completed the second of three dock projects at Terminal 18 used by SSA. In this phase, the waterside dock apron was strengthened and now is able to support additional 100-foot-gauge crane rails. The rails are necessary for super post-Panamax cranes that are able to span new ships that are 22-containers wide. When the dock construction projects on Terminal 18 are complete, the facility will have four active container berths. Completion is scheduled for September 2008.

Charles Sheldon, managing director, seaport division said over the past 12 years, the port has invested over $1 billion in container handling facilities and container volume is projected to grow considerably. He said the port is committed to remaining competitive in a very tight market. He said the company has staff and expertise in place and are building facilities capable of moving four million TEUs each year.