The Port of Bellingham has been awarded $23.5 million in federal BUILD grant funding for the second phase of its North Pier rehabilitation at the Bellingham Shipping Terminal — one of the larger maritime awards in the latest U.S. Department of Transportation round. The work will rebuild pier infrastructure, strengthen deck loading capacity, and upgrade the terminal’s mooring systems to protect the working waterfront and sustain family-wage jobs.

The Bellingham award was part of $136.8 million USDOT directed to 12 port and harbor projects nationwide, itself a slice of $1.73 billion in BUILD grants across 127 infrastructure projects drawn from nearly 1,200 applications. Other maritime recipients included Ports of Indiana ($25 million, the largest), Kentucky’s Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority ($24 million), Maine’s Eastport Port Authority, the Port Authority of Guam, and the Alaska Railroad’s Port of Seward freight dock.

Port Commission President Michael Shepard called the grant “a major milestone” in the port’s long-term effort to modernize the shipping terminal and strengthen its active working waterfront.

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