FIRST WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN VESSEL CALLS AT EVERETT, WASH.

FIRST WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN VESSEL CALLS AT EVERETT, WASH.       When Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s roll-on/roll-off vessel 'Tampa' arrived Monday in Everett, Wash., carrying fuselage sections and parts for the Boeing Co. from Japan, it was both the first Wallenius ship and the largest commercial vessel ever to call at the Pacific Northwest port.
   The 'Tampa,' 975 feet long with its stern ramp down, “dwarfed everything in sight with the exception of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (1,092-foot-long aircraft),” said John Mohr, executive director of the Port of Everett.
   The Wallenius Wilhelmsen vessel had loaded the Boeing cargo in Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama, Japan. The ship carried Boeing’s own oversized containers, some as wide as 23 feet and as high as 18.5 feet, filled with sections and parts for 777, 747, and 767 aircraft.
   Previously, the aircraft parts moved by barge from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma to Everett, to be delivered by rail over the five-mile distance between the port and Boeing’s assembly plant.