The Port of Tacoma learned this week that its victory in the battle for the business of the Grand Alliance container shipping consortium is coming with an unexpected bonus.
The Port of Tacoma learned this week that its victory in the battle for the business of the Grand Alliance container shipping consortium is coming with an unexpected bonus.
One of the three shipping lines in the Grand Alliance, Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd, will be moving its new Pacific Coast-Mediterranean service to Tacoma from Seattle in addition to its transpacific services.
Boosted by new traffic from the Grand Alliance shipping consortium, the Port of Tacoma last year recorded its best container shipping volumes since 2008.
A ship whose arrival in Tacoma in 1976 put the port in the big leagues is headed for the scrapyard.
Among the lessons that the recent recession taught the Port of Tacoma was that relying too heavily on a single line of business, no matter how potentially profitable, was an invitation to financial hardship.
The Port of Tacoma’s principal business, container shipments, rose by nearly 50 percent in February this year, new statistics from the port show.
Container import and export numbers continue to tell a positive story at the Port of Tacoma this year, with November showing a 9.5 percent increase over the same month last year.
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