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Port of Seattle; Aerial view of the Seattle harbor, 2022, showing numerous container terminals operated by the Port of Seattle: Agency overview; Formed: September 5, 1911 () Jurisdiction: King County, Washington: Headquarters: 2711 Alaskan Way Seattle, Washington, U.S. Employees: 2,150 (2018) Annual budget: $670 million (2018) Agency executive
Pier 66 is the official designation for the Port of Seattle's Bell Street Pier and Bell Harbor complex, which replaced historic Piers 64, 65, and 66 in the mid-1990s. Facilities at the Bell Street facility include a marina, a cruise ship terminal, a conference center, the Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center, restaurants, and marine services.
The new Port of Seattle (formed 1911) built Fishermen's Terminal about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north on Salmon Bay and paid the Great Northern US$150,000 for the docks and approximately 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land at Smith's Cove. At Smith's Cove they developed two new coal and lumber piers, Pier 40 and 41 (renumbered in 1941 as Piers 90 and 91).
Elliott Bay is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world. [14] [15] Cruise ship business, serving Alaskan cruises, became increasingly important in the 2000s. [16]
A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners. Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for example) ferry terminal , cruise terminal , marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal .
In 2022, the Port of Seattle completed a new 450,000-square-foot (42,000 m 2) International Arrivals Facility (IAF) east of Concourse A, along with a 900-foot (270 m)-long high bridge that will take passengers from the South Satellite, up 85 feet (26 m) above the existing taxiway and over the top of Concourse A. [52] The project was initially ...
The Port of Seattle owns Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, the region's primary airport for passengers and cargo, located 13 miles (21 km) from Seattle and 18 miles (29 km) from Tacoma. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] The two ports of Seattle and Tacoma are also connected to the state highway system , including Interstate 5 between both ports and ...
Annual cruise passengers Rank Port 2022 / 2023 Country 1 Port of Miami: 7,299,294 [1] United States 2 Port Canaveral: 6,924,865 [1] United States 3 Port of Cozumel: 4,098,491 [2] Mexico