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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.
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
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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 ...
The new Asian specialty store will occupy about 20, 700 square feet of space currently occupied by Times Supermarket along Kailua Road, according to a leasing brochure by property owner Alexander ...
The new port instead became a major lumber trader in the 1920s, owing to the dominant industry in Everett at the time. A major shipbuilder, the Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, operated from 1942 to 1949 as part of the national response to World War II, but did not remain in place after the end of the war. [4]