The taxes Pierce County residents pay the Port of Tacoma are going down next year.
Thanks to a revival of its container shipping business and an unexpected jump in its exports of construction machinery, the Port of Tacoma is meeting or exceeding nearly all of its budget goals.
The Port of Tacoma has scheduled two dates in November to consider the ports proposed 2013 budget, business forecast, finance plan and tax levy.
Some say the true test of how well a business works is not only how it handles adversity, but how skillfully it deals with prosperity. The Port of Tacoma has proved over the last few years how adeptly it can handle decline. Now with the sudden rush of new business brought by the move of the Grand Alliance shipping consortium to Tacoma from Seattle it is testing its mettle in handling the demands of sudden plenty.
The Port of Tacoma Commission recently got bad news that could cost unbudgeted millions on finding hidden sources of contamination and a second cleanup of the Hylebos Waterway.
Almost a year after longtime Marine View Drive marina Ole & Charlie’s called it quits, the landscape around the marina is evolving to a new purpose.
Port of Tacoma chief executive John Wolfe, who turned down a raise last year, won a 9 percent, $20,000 raise Thursday from Port of Tacoma commissioners.
About 600 miles north of Tacoma, amid the dark, deep waters of Hecate Strait, sits a small Canadian port whose ambitions in the container shipping business have become a cause for concern for West Coast ports, particularly those in the Pacific Northwest.
Three decades ago, Tacoma Tideflats industries emitted a witch’s brew of foul-smelling and health-threatening pollutants. Many of the Tideflats industrial sites were contaminated with chemicals, and its log yards were paved with a layer of arsenic- and metal-laden ground slag from Tacoma’s Asarco copper smelter.
The results are in for the first full month of business at the Port of Tacoma from the container shipping consortium the Grand Alliance, and the numbers are encouraging.
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