Shipping

Marine Services
Numerous steamship and barge companies operate out of Seattle including: APL Ltd., Hyundai Merchant Marine, Mitsui OSK Line, NYK North America Line, OOCL, Hanjin Shipping, Matson Navigation, COSCO Americas, Totem Ocean Trailer Express and Westwood Shipping.

Port of Seattle

With the West Coast’s premier harbor facilities and closest proximity to Asia, the Port of Seattle is the fastest route for cargo to and from America’s heartland. The transit time from port cities in Asia to Seattle is eight days, which is 30 hours less than through Southern California ports.

Seattle is the eighth largest container port in the United States and the fiftieth largest container port in the world. The ports of Seattle and Tacoma combined are the third largest container load centers in the U.S.

The Port of Seattle is served by 26 regularly scheduled steamship lines. Harbor services include:

• On-dock and near dock intermodal rail
• Sea-to-air transfer
• 501 container terminal acreage
• 4 container terminals, 1 barge terminal, 2 cruise terminals, 1 multi-purpose terminal
• Grain terminal: 3.99 million bushel capacity
• Off-dock CFCs available
• 26 cranes (7 of which are super post Panamax), 10 container berths
• 5 million cubic feet of cold storage
• Port of Seattle Trade Zone #5 authority encompasses all 1,400 acres of the ports seaport and aviation facilities
• Monthly and guest moorage slips with capacity for 1,630 recreational boats up to 130 feet (40m), at 3 Port owned and operated marinas
• Complete facilities for commercial fishing and commercial marine vessels in freshwater Fisherman’s Terminal and Maritime Industrial Center, with combined capacity of 340 stalls and 4,000+ linear feet of alongside moorage for vessels up to 300 feet (92 m) in length