News / Larger ships and Canadian competition push Tacoma and Seattle towards accord

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend – an increasingly popular mantra in today’s multi-polar world, proven by the revelation that the US west coast ports of Tacoma and Seattle have applied to the Federal Maritime Commission to begin co-operation talks.

For so long bitter rivals, separated by just 30 miles across the Puget Sound, the two ports have come to conclusion that, after a particularly fierce year of competition in 2013, their interests would be better served if they ...