Creating with SystemsSeattle-Tacoma Gateway Actor Map
Waterfront Labor
The union locals, the employers' association, the hiring hall they run together, and the joint committee that decides who is registered to work. Tug and barge crews belong to a separate union division.
- The Hiring Hall
- Pacific Maritime Association
- ILWU Longshore Locals
- Joint Port Labor Relations Committee
- Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific
Vessel Movement
The parties that bring a ship from the strait to the berth and out again: the pilots, the tugs, the line handlers, the ship's local agent who orders them, the Coast Guard, the traffic service it runs with Canada, and the industry body that tracks every movement.
- Puget Sound Pilots
- Tug Operators
- US Coast Guard (Sector Puget Sound)
- Ship Agents
- Line Handlers
- Marine Exchange of Puget Sound
- Vessel Traffic Service / CVTS
Ownership & Governance
Who owns the ground and who governs it: two county port districts, the elected commissions that run them, the alliance through which they manage the cargo business together, and the tribal government that owns land alongside.
- Elected Port Commissioners
- Northwest Seaport Alliance
- Port of Seattle
- Puyallup Tribe of Indians
- Port of Tacoma
Terminal Operators
The companies that lease each terminal, run the cranes and the gate, and sell stevedoring to the shipping lines. Four container terminals, two of them owned by the carriers they serve, plus the two Alaska and Hawaii operators.
- Washington United Terminals
- SSA Terminals (Seattle)
- Husky Terminal
- Everport (Pierce County Terminal)
- TOTE Maritime / Matson (domestic)
Cargo Interests & Intermediaries
The parties who own, book, insure and certify the cargo and the ship without handling either: cargo owners, forwarders, customs brokers, the shipping lines and their alliances, insurers, classification societies and surveyors.
- Customs Brokers
- Classification Societies
- Vessel Alliances
- Cargo Owners (BCOs)
- Freight Forwarders / NVOCCs
- Ocean Carriers
- Marine Insurers / P&I Clubs
- Marine Surveyors
Regulators
The federal and state agencies with authority over some part of the work: customs and the agencies that act through it, the maritime and pilotage regulators, and the environmental agencies that permit the terminals.
- Federal Maritime Commission
- WA Ecology + Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
- US Customs and Border Protection
- USDA · FDA · CPSC · EPA
- WA Board of Pilotage Commissioners
- WA Utilities and Transportation Commission
Inland Haul
What carries a container away from the terminal gate and where it ends up: two Class I railroads, the city switching line that serves the Tacoma yards, the trucks, the chassis they ride on, and the warehouses of the Kent Valley and Pierce County.
- Drayage Truckers
- BNSF Railway
- Union Pacific
- Chassis Pools
- Tacoma Rail
- Warehouses & Inland Destinations