Barge Company Rehires Workers
The Portland Business Journal reports today that work that closed the navigation locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers for several months is nearing an end, and Tidewater Barge Lines Inc. is preparing to bring back 100 employees it laid off during the closure.
The Columbian reports that the Vancouver, Wash.-based barge operator will also bring another 100 workers back to full-time status who had worked a mix of part-time and full-time hours during the locks outage.
This is good news for the Pacific Northwest maritime industry.
