In this opinion piece that was recently published in the Seattle Times, Seattle Port Commissioner John Creighton says the following:
John Creighton
Puget Sound public ports have been cooperating more and more over the past several years on issues varying from environmental stewardship to port security. We should be looking at two additional areas of cooperation: infrastructure development and commercial planning and marketing.
There are infrastructure needs that local public ports have in common — such as off-dock intermodal rail-yard capacity — that we should be developing jointly instead of duplicating efforts. Greater commercial cooperation among local ports would give us increased market power and a better ability to resist the “race to the bottom” in which ports undercut each other with public dollars.