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In 1951, Seattle Box reported a loss for only the second time in sixty-two years of operation. [30] A labor strike in 1950 and a 1954 two-month strike affected profits by raising the basic wage to $1.905 per hour. [30] [31] Seattle Box and Tacoma Box sought new products and more efficient ways to produce them. [30]
The Port of Tacoma debuted its own cargo container-ready facilities in 1970, and gradually lured away several large shipping lines from Seattle through the 1990s, including Alaska-based Totem Ocean Trailer Express (1976), SeaLand (1983), Maersk (1985), K Line (1988), and Evergreen Marine (1991).
Based on container volumes, China is the port's largest trading partner. More than 70 percent of the containers imported through the port move by rail to markets in the Midwest and East Coast. The port is served by the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific railroads. Shortline rail service is provided by Tacoma Rail, which is owned by the City of Tacoma.
Tacoma Spokesperson Maria Lee told The Center Square in a phone call that the $5.6 million will come from 26 cuts to staff positions that are mostly filled. After accounting for the $5.6 million ...
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Soil in the Ruston/North Tacoma study area is contaminated by arsenic and lead. Soil, surface water and groundwater across most of the Tacoma Tar Pits site is contaminated by metals, PAHs, PCBs, and VOCs including benzene, from a former coal gasification plant and recycling operations. Ship building, oil refining, chemical manufacture and ...
Removal will allow them to access a key portion of the roadway, now perched above the containers on board the 980-foot, Singapore-flagged ship when it lost power and struck the bridge March 26.