I acknowledge the correction that rather than stating "the Port of Longview ships two to three times more logs," I should have stated that "two to three times more logs ship from Longview." My export figures come from the United States Census Bureau, which tracks commodity export data by Port location regardless of who moves the logs. My comparison of exports from Olympia and exports from Longview is accurate. The fact that the Port of Olympia is competing with Weyerhaeuser itself in Longview only reinforces the question of whether Weyerhaeuser would ever be willing to export from Olympia without public subsidies. The differences between the Martin Associates studies and the strategic goals of the two public ports remains a fair comparison -- and makes it worth considering if not maintaining a log yard for Weyerhaeuser is a factor in the Port of Longview's relative success.
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