Read about the maritime industry of the Northwest including ship building, fishing and seafood processing, cargo handling, passenger-vessel operations and related companies.
Thirty-two cargo vessels have cancelled their sailings in the first three months of this year, compared to just 12 over the same period last year.
The combined effects of coronavirus and the U.S.-China trade war have caused cargo volumes to fall by as much as 30% compared to this time...
Cruise season in Seattle generates nearly $900 million in business activity and supports 5,500 jobs, according to the Port.
The Alaska cruise season starts next month, but fallout from the global spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is rippling through the cruising sector.
Even before the epidemic started, said Expeditors, its earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 were down 23%, which it attributed primarily to "slowing trade...
Cruise lines have found themselves at the center of the coronavirus outbreak. How big a hit will the industry take?
The National Transportation Safety Board also is investigating the Dec. 31 sinking, which claimed the lives of five of seven crew members.
Dungeness sustain West Coast commercial seafood harvests typically worth more than $200 million annually, and are a mainstay for tribal and recreational crabbers.
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