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Port and airlines detail temporary trucking response after Olympic pipeline outage
Summary
Port of Seattle, airline consortium and BP described emergency measures that kept SeaTac operating during the Olympic Pipeline outage: port reconfiguration, extra offloads, coordinated alerts and trucking that averaged 560,000 gallons/day and peaked with dozens of daily truckloads, while an estimated 104 flights were diverted.
The Port of Seattle and airline operators told the Senate Transportation Committee that coordinated emergency action and a nationwide trucking surge prevented broader flight cancellations after the Olympic Pipeline outage.
Wendy Bridal, Managing Director of Aviation at Seattle‑Tacoma International Airport (SEA), described rapid port adaptations, including reconfiguring parts of the fuel farm to accept more trucked fuel, expanding on‑site safety and spill‑prevention practices with port fire and police, and working under the governor's emergency proclamation to enable additional trucking. Bridal…
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