Salmon Terminals

At STI, we provide logistical solutions to your shipping, distribution, warehouse and contract packaging needs. From short term overflow storage to a full blown packaging and distribution project, we can provide customized solutions scaled to fit your needs and budget.

Our origins date back to the end of WWI, when two brothers, Jim and Roy Puckett, founded the Puckett Company for the sole purpose of labeling canned salmon shipped from Alaska's canneries to warehouses located throughout the Seattle area. The Puckett brothers transported their machines from one warehouse to the next, labeling cans on site.

A decade later - in 1929 - seventeen of Alaska's canneries joined forces to create one central facility here in the Puget Sound area responsible for receiving, storing, and distributing canned salmon to the major markets of the world. This facility was called the Salmon Terminals. The Puckett Company was retained to label the product at the Salmon Terminals.

The Salmon Terminals first home was located at Piers 24 and 25 along the Seattle waterfront at about Spokane St. and Marginal Way.

Salmon Terminals remained a cooperative warehouse for almost 30 years until members were bought out by Olympic Steamship Company. The Puckett Company retained ownership of the labeling operation until 1973 when, after more than 50 years labeling canned salmon, the Puckett Company sold its interest in the labeling equipment to Olympic Steamship.

From 1966 to 1983 Olympic Steamship Company operated Salmon Terminals from West Seattle next to Pier 5. In the spring of 1983, Salmon Terminals moved to its current location in Kent.

On July 1, 1987, the equipment of the Salmon Terminals division of the Olympic Steamship Co. was purchased and a new Washington corporation ---Salmon Terminals, Inc. -- was founded.

In July, 2006 we moved into our new warehouse on the border between Kent and Auburn.