The president of the Port of Seattle commission said today that the ports in the Puget Sound are in danger of losing a tremendous amount of business to a pair of ports just up the coast  in Canada. … He said that for the first time, the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma are working together, rather than as competitors, to combat the threat of losing business to our neighbors to the north.

From the King County Examiner, October 8, 2009