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Shift in Sound bragging rights over shipping business
(The Seattle Times)
February 6, 2002
By Frank Vinluan Seattle Times business reporter
The sluggish international economy of the past year cut deeply into Seattle's container-shipping business, allowing the Port of Tacoma to edge out its Puget Sound counterpart for the first time in years.
But shipping-industry groups say the discrepancy is small and represents the ebb and flow of trade.
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