I can't say I've really been interested in much on here the last few weeks... Lets see, some woman sueing for being stupid, looking for keys, scapping of some Alco unit yadda yadda yadda... Oh ya, and the grand railroad pay dividens for the 110th straight year!! Big deal!!
So, as the title says, has anyone been paying any attention to the ship traffic coming into the Port of Seattle, and or Tacoma??? Containor ship traffic is up considerably over the last few weeks.. T-5 and Seattle, (APL terminal) has 8 ship schedualed over the next 7 days, 6 at T-18, 2 at T-46 and 1 at T-30... The same has been happening at Tacoma... Having been able to go to the monthly staff meeting in Portland the first Monday of the month, it has been interesting that a few of the steamship lines have moved a little traffic north, from what I heard its to get away from the increase in taxes in Cali.. APL has been the steamship line to move the largest amount of traffic, Hanjin is the next... Reportedly, K-Line and Evergreen after the first of the year.. Also changing over the next few weeks is the auto traffic, the UP has 95% of the Toyota traffic, and by the first of the year will also have 90% of the Honda traffic out of both Tacoma and Portland.. As of the 15th of December UP will have ALL the Hub Group and Pacer traffic out of the PNW. Look for a second section of the KPDG2 as that traffic increases, also the auto symbles will be the ABAWG, (toyotas), and the ABACL and ABACLX, (hondas) will start running at least 5 days a week, not each symble but one or the other, to start... And one last bit of info, the new grain terminal being build at Longview and to open in July of 2011, the UP has a contract already for at LEAST 6 trains a day.. The next few months in the PNW is going to be interesting..
11-20-2009, 12:26 AM
Port of Seattle, Anyone paying attention???
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