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Instead of competing against each other as they had for many decades, the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma now present a united marketing and planning effort to sell itself as the nation’s third largest ocean going freight gateway, behind the ports of New York and New Jersey and Long Beach and Los Angeles in California.
Now that 2015’s officially in the books, how did the alliance do?
In new numbers released Wednesday, overall business at the Northwest Seaport Alliance is up 4% over 2014. Overall container volume that accounts for most of the freight handled is up 3% to 3,529,198 containers handled as measured by the industry standard of 20-foot equivalent units.