News / Rivals Tacoma and Seattle to create joint-venture US gateway via a Seaport Alliance

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Neighbours Tacoma and Seattle, located on the northern tip of the US west coast, have taken the next step in one of the most innovative collaborative developments between competing ports in recent years.

The authorities of the two ports this week announced that they plan to create a “Seaport Alliance, to unify management of the two ports’ marine cargo terminals and related functions”.

The move by the once fierce competitors facing each other across the Puget Sound is a bid to form ...