The port of Tacoma removes to Seattle the traffic of Grand Alliance



The port of Tacoma has celebrated the next arrival of the ships of the shipowning consortium Grand Alliance, constituted from the companies Hapag-Lloyd, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL), traffic that has been acquired from the Washington United Terminals terminal and that it will be removed to the port of Seattle, where currently lands to managed Terminal 18 from the Marine SSA.

According to the forecasts, the portacontainer of Grand Alliance they will begin to scale the port of Tacoma the next July and they will transfer you a traffic pairs to about 400.000 container teu per year, volume that will allow with the port of Tacoma to newly exceed Seattle for amount of containerized trade enlivened annually. Last year Tacoma has totaled a traffic 1.488.799 pairs to container teu, with an increase of 2.3% on 2010, while the port of Tacoma has enlivened 2.033.535 teu, with a bending of 5.0% on 2010.

"We have confidence that, with our partner operating - the managing director of the Port of Tacoma has commented, John Wolfe - we will continue to supply an exceptional service to ours important customers and to our community and, making it, we will continue to achieve new opportunity of business to the port of Tacoma".

Anything but tenor the comment of the Port of Seattle, than however has found as "it is important that the activity remains in the State of Washington". "Unfortunately - it has observed the harbour authority - even if many places of work are preserved, others it will not be. Some of those who they work in the port of Seattle will be able to accuse a serious impact on their source of maintenance or, in some case, they will be able to lose it".

Port Authority di Seattle has turned an accusation to the port of Tacoma: "the harbour infrastructure of Seattle - it has explained the harbour authority - represents beyond a billion of dollars of investments and the better way in order to do so as that both ports work for all the State is that to acquire new cargo volumes for our regional system. We encourage the commercial customers towards a competition to the decrease that endangers our ability to invest in the infrastructures of which we need in order to support the traffic of import-export from which our State depends. As public infrastructure administrators, the ports are obliged to guarantee that the investments carried out in our port are used to maximum benefit of the contributors of the State. The gain local in the short term for a single port announced today (yesterday, ndr) can act in the long term absolutely to the detriment of the economy of the State. We continue to on how speed up a dialogue - it has concluded the Port of Seattle - with which the two ports they can cooperate to the aim to maximize the yield of the investments supported from the contributors, that they in the long term constitute the primary objective declared in our "Century Agenda" (the development plan of the harbour authority, ndr)".