{"id":3569,"date":"2012-05-02T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/05\/02\/tacoma-ten-year-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:33:04","slug":"tacoma-ten-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/05\/02\/tacoma-ten-year-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma ten year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The result is a fresh new outlook for Tacoma focusing on four key areas \u2013 strategic investment in port infrastructure to better move freight to market, increasing the diversity of the port\u2019s business portfolio, becoming best in class for customer care and ensuring corporate responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>A port spokesperson said to <i>Port Strategy<\/i>: \u201cThe port wants to focus its attention and resources on the areas that will continue to make us most competitive in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma has a hefty project list, including the redevelopment and expansion of the peninsula bounded by the Sitcum and Blair waterways into a \u201chighly efficient container terminal\u201d capable of handling the world\u2019s largest ships.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plans to expand Tideflats rail to receive and deliver mile 1.5 mile long unit trains, as well as a second rail crossing over the Puyallup River.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma says the change in tact is needed to better position itself for success in the global shipping industry and a still sluggish US economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Tacoma has announced its strategic development plan for the next ten years \u2013 the culmination of a year\u2019s worth of  research with customers, the local community and employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}