OLYMPIA — More than 1,400 dairy cows have been shipped out of the Port of Olympia and are on their way to Vietnam.
KING-TV reports that crews loaded the 20 truckloads of cattle onto a livestock cargo ship Tuesday. The trip is expected to last 29 days.
The cows are being sent to Vietnam to support the country’s newly launched campaign to get children to drink at least one glass of milk a day.
Troy Clayton with Clayton Agri-Marketing Inc., the company shipping the cows, says Tuesday’s export of 1,430 cows was the largest ever for cattle crossing the Pacific.
