PULSES & BEYOND STEVE BALASKI NWSA
find a way. They’re looking at all options from trucking to rail down to east coast ports. We’ve seen peas grown in Montana move to Montreal for export, for example. Freight will always find a way to move and if they can't do it through here, they just have to find a way. It does increase the cost and decrease the efficiency but, at the end of the day, they have to serve their customers. What tools does the NW Seaport Alliance have in its arsenal to come up against that competition? The Northwest Seaport Alliance is a marine cargo operating partnership between the Tacoma and Seattle ports. It’s a new model, the first of its kind - at least in the USA-, and allows us to act as a single gateway. We don’t have a preference on where cargo goes between the two ports, which lets us look at our capital investments more holistically in terms
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