PUGET SOUND CONTAINER PORTS FILE JOINT DISCUSSION AGREEMENT WITH FMC

摘要

Stopping short of proposing an actual merger, the Puget Sound container ports of Seattle and Tacoma have filed a joint discussion agreement with the Federal Maritime Commission in the face of what they described as "responding to unprecedented industry pressures." The seven-page document the two Pacific Northwest port authorities filed outlines several points as to what they would discuss together, including: container facility planning, development; management, operational costs at container facilities; federal, state, local government cooperation, funding for transport infrastructure; container business rates of return on port-owned terminals, such as rates, tariffs, leases; port facility utilization; and expenditures of funds for the ports' container business.