The Port of Tacoma’s container traffic, hard hit by the recession, will halt its decline this year and grow at more than three times the rate the port has projected, the Port of Tacoma Commission’s outgoing president predicted Thursday.
Commissioner Don Johnson, reviewing his year as commission head, predicted the critical cargo container business will grow by 15 percent in 2011. The port’s own admittedly conservative budget projections call for a 4 percent increase in container volumes this year.
The commission Thursday elected commissioner Connie Bacon, a 14-year veteran of the commission, as its president for 2011.