The pace of activity at the Port of Tacoma has been dialed up to high with the arrival of four new shipping lines last month.
The pace of activity at the Port of Tacoma has been dialed up to high with the arrival of four new shipping lines last month.
Those shipping lines, a consortium called the Grand Alliance, are calling at the port’s Washington United Terminal on the Blair Waterway.
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A new lease approved by Port of Tacoma commissioners Thursday ensures the port’s nearly 40-year-old Schuster Parkway grain terminal will remain an active export facility until at least 2040.
The Port of Tacoma’s principal business, container shipments, rose by nearly 50 percent in February this year, new statistics from the port show.
When agricultural inspectors first discovered a dime-sized mollusk on a vacant industrial site at the Port of Tacoma eight years ago, they sounded a loud alarm.
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.
Boosted by new traffic from the Grand Alliance shipping consortium, the Port of Tacoma last year recorded its best container shipping volumes since 2008.
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