The modernization project is meant to enhance the competitive position of Seattle-Tacoma among other ports along the West Coast of North America that have outperformed the NWSA this year.
Railroads hauled a record number of domestic containers in the second quarter as shippers banked some of the largest savings against truckload in the history of the Journal of Commerce’s Intermodal Savings Index.
With Europe gripped by a blistering heatwave, operators on the crucial waterway warn the river may soon be impassable for cargo-laden barges.
