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Published May 15th, 2012 - 6:41AM
Last week The News Tribune speculated that the Port of Tacoma’s updates to its Pier 3 infrastructure would allow the port to host Maersk Line’s new “Triple E” containerships, the world’s largest vessels.
Published May 5th, 2012 - 3:23AM
For the first time in 36 years, the Port of Tacoma is updating its public identity.
Published April 25th, 2012 - 8:33AM
The site of a former massive aluminum smelter could become a bulk goods terminal if the Port of Tacoma is successful with a new plan to attract iron ore and potash exports to the port.
Published April 13th, 2012 - 4:19AM
The Port of Tacoma Commission Thursday set high goals for business development over the next decade as it approved the framework of a new long-range strategic plan.
Published March 17th, 2012 - 5:01PM
For Tacoma and its port, the recent announcement that a major shipping consortium had chosen the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal as its Northwest port of call was a welcome victory for a city and a port pummeled by the recession.
Published March 9th, 2012 - 1:39AM
Tacoma could regain its crown as Puget Sound’s largest container port thanks to a Thursday decision by a group of three container shipping lines to forsake the Port of Seattle in favor of the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal.
Published March 9th, 2012 - 7:20PM
No one is saying definitively yet what gave the Port of Tacoma the edge over the Port of Seattle in the contest to win the business of three container shipping lines, but Port of Tacoma officials say it wasn't just money.
Published March 8th, 2012 - 11:38AM
A consortium of three major shipping lines has picked Tacoma over Seattle as its Northwest port of call, Tacoma maritime officials said today. The move of the Grand Alliance shipping lines – NYK Lines, OOCL and Hapag Lloyd – to Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal on the Blair Waterway could boost Tacoma’s critical container business by 25 percent to 30 percent.
Published February 23rd, 2012 - 3:43AM
Container shipping traffic at the Port of Tacoma was up last month, reversing a 6.6 percent decline in December.
Published February 4th, 2012 - 4:27AM
The only remaining flying example of the most prolifically produced plane in history, a World War II Russian IL-2 attack plane, arrived this week at the Port of Tacoma on its way to Everett.

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