Finding More Information...

Interested in learning more about the Port, the maritime industry or Pierce County? Check out the links below:

Find many of the Port's shipping line and industrial development customers in the Transportation Directory.

Have a suggestion for additional links? E-mail Megan Anderson.

Transportation:

• Dart Maritime Services - Provides trade compliance services
• EModal - Trucker database
• The Food Shippers Association of North America - Non-profit, member-owned organization of companies engaged in the export of frozen and chilled foodstuffs
• Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board - Facilitates freight movement between and among local, national and international markets
• Marine Exchange of Puget Sound - Provides communication and information services specific to Puget Sound
• Maritime Global Net - Offers access to products, services, news and other industry related data
• NSnet - Maritime glossary, shipbuilding photographs and a shipbuilding web log
• Washington State Department of Transportation

Trade Organizations:

• American Association of Port Authorities
• Washington Public Ports Association
• Washington Council on International Trade

Trade and Economic Development:

• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County
• Japan External Trade Organization
• National Association of Foreign Trade Zone Boards
• Washington State China Relations Council
• World Trade Center Association
• World Trade Center Tacoma

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• The Journal of Commerce
• Cargo Business News
• Pacific Maritime Magazine
• Traffic World
• WWS/World Wide Shipping
• Port of Tacoma's Pacific Gateway

Tacoma-Pierce County

• Commencement Bay Maritime Fest
• Lakewood Chamber of Commerce
• Pierce County Government
• Tacoma Regional Convention Visitor Bureau
• Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce
• Tacoma Power
• Tacoma Rail
• Tacoma Seafarers Center
• Tacoma Water

Cities in Pierce County (that have Web Sites)

• DuPont
• Edgewood
• Fife
• Puyallup
• Steilacoom
• Sumner
• Tacoma
• Wilkeson

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Washington State

• Access.WA - Washington state government
• Labor Market Information
• Puget Sound Regional Council
• Small Business Administration, Western Washington
• Washington State
  • Community, Trade and Economic Development
  • Department of Labor and Industries
  • Department of Revenue
  • Department of Transportation
  • Employment Security Department
  • Office of Financial Management
  • Office of Forecast Council
  • Small Business Development Center

• International Trade Administration
• U.S. Bureau of Census, Foreign Trade Division
• U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• U.S. Customs
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• U.S. Export Assistance Center

Higher Education (in Western Washington)

• Bates Technical College
• City University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• Pierce College
• Tacoma Community College
• University of Washington, Tacoma
• University of Puget Sound

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