The Port of Prince Rupert has clearly caught the attention of Ports up and down the West coast, but nowhere has its success so far in the world of containerization been watched than at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma.
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The Port of Seattle has just announced that they are in the process of setting up a fast freight program that will see containers unloaded at Seattle/Tacoma sent by BNSF express trains to Chicago and Memphis, a project that sounds quite similar to Prince Rupert’s current operation, though the Rupert option will still be a quicker option owing to our location closer as we are to Asia’s ports…
(from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 2673103210 )-