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Some Scarce Good News
While
we tend to stress the pessimists' view of the world today, we occasionally run
across something more optimistic, for instance,
The
Seattle Times reports, 5/15/05 that:
Growth
in 2004 (in Port
of Seattle)
28.8 million
passengers at Sea-Tac marked an
all-time
high, up 7.5 percent from 2003 Seaport's 1.8 million cargo containers in 2004
marked a 21 per cent increase from 2003. More
than 560,000 cruise passengers traveled through Terminals 30 & 66 up 62
percent from 2003.
We
hope the good news keeps coming. More jobs and more cargo in the future of the
Port of Seattle means better times all around. But, even the good news is
tempered, as we noted elsewhere, the out sourcing of longshore jobs could go to
a new, modern container port in Baja California.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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