Northwest Port Review An Overview of the Ports of Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, and Prince Rupert Prepared By: Michael Schwab Prepared For: Dr. Chris Clott Transportation Carrier Management The California Maritime Academy March 15, 2009

Port of Prince Rupert Kaien Island in Western British Columbia

Port of Prince Rupert Historically for lumber and mining industries Recently seen high demand for containers

Port of Prince Rupert Facilitates the shortest route between Chicago and Shanghai Closest North American Port to key Asian Ports Contracts with CN Rail

Port of Prince Rupert Container, cruise, coal, and grain terminals Container terminal is 59 acres First dedicated intermodal (ship to rail) container terminal in North America with capacity to move 500,000 TEUs per year

Port of Vancouver Vancouver, Southern British Columbia

Port of Vancouver Canada’s largest ice-free deep water port Cargoes moving through the Port of Vancouver include: Grain Sulfur Coal Petrochemicals Potash Steel Forest products Containers

Port of Vancouver 4 th largest tonnage port in North America Offers 28 major marine cargo terminals and three Class 1 railroads

Port of Vancouver Total impacts of ongoing operations at Port of Vancouver across Canada are: 129,500 jobs $10.5 billion in Gross Domestic Product $22 billion in economic output $6.1 billion in wages

Port of Seattle Seattle, Northwest Washington

Port of Seattle Closer to Asia than any major U.S. port Seaport facilities encompass more than 1,500 acres Containers Breakbulk

Port of Seattle Plans to expand; but current recession has paused plans “Green Initiative” Competition from Port of Tacoma

Port of Seattle Teamed with BNSF to reduce emissions at the port as well as increase efficiency 4 wide-span, electric, rail-mounted gantry cranes

Port of Tacoma Tacoma, Northwest Washington

Port of Tacoma Deep-water port in Southern Puget Sound Outstanding intermodal operations: 2 transcontinental railroads I-5, I-90, SR-509, SR-167

Port of Tacoma Major gateway to Asia and Alaska 7 th largest container port in North America 2 million TEU’s in 2007

Port of Tacoma Main trading partners: China/Hong Kong ($13.06 billion) Japan ($10.39 billion) Alaska ($3.50 billion) Top Imports: Machineries Vehicles Textiles Top Exports: Grain Meat Aircraft Parts

Port of Portland Portland, Northwest Oregon

Port of Portland Located on Columbia River Over 100 miles up-river from Pacific Passes under multiple bridges Multiple pilots needed (Bar and River)

Port of Portland Set away from the city of Portland Room for expansion No city traffic Less strict laws Low ship congestion Low warehousing cost Available containers

Port of Portland Because of its location on the Columbia, they must constantly dredge High concern for rain run-off Portland focused on making port “green”

Conclusion Focus should be on intermodal Northwest ports have location advantage Northwest passage opening and Panama Canal is being widened

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