The absence of big cargo ships on Elliott Bay may be a harbinger of a bigger slowdown at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma as the effects of America’s trade war with China start to hit home.

President Trump’s tariffs are hurting businesses and consumers and pushing the economy into recession, West Coast lawmakers ...

“When we’re going to see (trade) volumes dropping, we should see the prices go down significantly,” said Antweiler, chair for ...

There is only one container ship unloading on the opposite side of the waterway.” A recession occurs when there are two ...

Port of Seattle officials are predicting a sharp decline in shipping volume and local business owners are preparing to deal ...

Apr. 25—Like many of his neighbors near the Seattle waterfront, Alex Smith keeps a close eye on the big container ships crossing Elliott Bay to and from the terminals at the port of Seattle. So when ...

With Chinese imports tanking and fewer calls expected at West Coast ports, many empty containers won’t have a way back to ...

Signs of how badly U.S. President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on China will hit international trade are starting to show up in benchmark shipping rates from Shanghai in China. The shipping ...

SEATTLE – Like many of his neighbors near the Seattle waterfront, Alex Smith keeps a close eye on the big container ships crossing Elliott Bay to and from the terminals at the port of Seattle.

Amid 145% tariffs on goods coming from China, Northwest Seaport Alliance co-chair and Port of Tacoma president John McCarthy ...

Right now, the largest container ship terminal in Seattle has no vessels docked at all, with the exception of one icebreaker preparing to head to Alaska. There is only one container ship unloading ...

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific have been busy handling a surge of containers from West Coast ports as U.S. companies pulled ...