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Productivity still falling short at port’s newly busy terminal
Despite substantial progress in solving startup problems, productivity is still falling short of goals at a Port of Tacoma terminal where a shipping line consortium moved from Seattle five months ago.
Alec Coleman, Washington United Terminals vice president, told Tacoma port commissioners Thursday that the surge of new business the that Grand Alliance shipping consortium brought to the Tacoma terminal is still not moving as swiftly and efficiently through the terminal as the WUT had projected.
Washington United Terminals leases the container terminal on Tacoma’s Blair Waterway from the Port of Tacoma.
“We still have a long way to go …