Comment / Postcard from Seattle and Tacoma

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A little over ten years ago, executives at the ports of Tacoma and Seattle agreed to bring an end to a century of bitter rivalry and form the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA).

The two ports, separated by a 45-minute drive along the shoreline of the Puget Sound, have been fierce competitors for many years* but came to the eminently sensible conclusion that the threat posed to both ports from competing gateways north of the US-Canada border – Vancouver and Prince Rupert ...