- Senator Keiser and Senator Warnick made opening comments - Presentation given by Hayley Gamble, Senate Transportation Committee o Hayley provided information on each airports daily aircraft operations as well as the amount of space they use and have available (see PowerPoint) o The top five air cargo commodities through Sea-Tac are cherries, seafood, footwear parts, aerospace components, and aluminum alloy and graphite The question was asked if there is a more complete list of imported commodities Tom Green, Senior Manager at Sea-Tac – Not a lot of this data is tracked by the airport; they focus more on tracking exports. There are other fruits imported such as blueberries and other small fruits, but cherries are the largest one. o About 55% of all Cargo goes through Sea-Tac with 45% of it being in the belly of passenger planes o 40% or more of the cargo is international Roughly 15% to Europe and 29% to Asia Tom Green, Senior Manager at Sea-Tac – There is better data on international cargo because customs tracks it, but there is no similar agency for domestic cargo. It is not easy to sort domestic cargo into commodity types Roughly 80-90% of international cargo originates in Washington State Freight is transported by truck; there is no connection to rail - Presentation given by Jason Beloso and Tristan Atkins – WSDOT o See PowerPoint - Comments from Charles Knutson, Governor’s Office o We need to look at freight…Open full document
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An outline of the cargo meeting held at Port Of Seattle