Northwest maritime industry looks to a better 2021

The Harley Marine Services tug Dr. Hank Kaplan passes a containership at the Port of Seattle. Kirk Moore photo.

Battered by trade wars and covid-19, the Northwest maritime industry is applying lessons learned from both crises, according to leaders who spoke at Pacific Marine Expo’s virtual Maritime Economic Forecast.

With China as their number-one trading partner, the Northwest Seaport Alliance of Seattle and Tacoma saw immense change as a result of U.S.-China trade disputes, followed by a steep falloff in vessel traffic as covid-19 reverberated in the world economy.

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