Interesting perspective piece out from the Associated Press about the Port of Lewiston, the most inland U.S. port on the Pacific Coast, and one of Idaho’s significant links to shippers to points west.
The article’s most immediate point was that shipping at the port is down, which is what you might expect given the depressed economy. (Other western ports, including such as Portland with which Lewiston works significantly, are down somewhat too.)
But the larger point in the article has to do with what looks like important structural changes that may change the port’s role in years to come. Some shippers are moving toward trucking, it said; others are realigning their approaches now that fewer ships, on less frequent schedules, are making their way so far inland.
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