Mixed results for US ports

This has been a mixed year at ports on both coasts of the USA as throughput has risen in some major ports and fallen in others.

In the Northwest, the biggest winner has been the Port of Tacoma, where throughput rose by 10% year-on-year in the first half of 2014, following on from an 11% rise in 2013.

Tacoma’s success may have been at the expense of its neighbours and competitors, the ports of Seattle and Portland, which had a 14.8% and 6.1% decline in throughput respectively in the first half of the year.