The Port of Bremerton's industrial and business properties have many attractive features you should consider when making the right decision to begin to consider relocating your business to the Puget Sound area.
Regional and World-Wide Connections
- Excellent access to two deep-water ports, Seattle and Tacoma.
- On-Site rail connections.
- Interstate 5 accessibility to markets from Vancouver, British Columbia to San Diego, California.
- Overnight couriers, FedEx and UPS, operate through the adjacent Bremerton National Airport.
- Rail access to deep water oceanic Port of Grays Harbor.
Excellent Work Force, Superior Training
- Many qualified people are readily available in a wide range of technical and industrial fields.
- Olympic College - comprehensive selection of voc-tech programs, including company specific training programs, on campus or at the plant site.
- University of Washington - wide range of technical, research, and advanced degree programs, an hour and a half away.
- Keyport Research Laboratory (U.S. Navy) - assistance with engineering, building prototypes, testing, CAD/CAM technologies.
Foreign Trade Zone
The Port's industrial and airport properties lie mostly inside the designated Foriegn Trade Zone #216 (
www.ftz216.com). If activation is cost effective, the zone will save money on imported parts for your firm's products. Your firm will pay no tariffs on any imported raw materials used in those products when the products are shipped overseas. If these products are sold in the U.S., you pay duty only when the product is shipped and only on the amount of foreign materials that went into the product, not the wastage. Our Free Trade status gives you an edge over your competitors. Contact the Port Chief Operating Officer for a FTZ Activation Feasibility Questionaire.
Profitability
- Land costs are lower.
- Tax rates are lower than Texas, Colorado, Arizona, California.
- Electrical power rates are among the lowest in the country (Energy User News)
- Sites are totally infrastructured. Water, sewer, zoning, gas, power, rail, airport, all-weather state highways... all are in place and ready immediately.
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