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    2026-05-08

    It All Adds Up Sea Change – Deploying Underwater Tech To Study How Noise Affects Marine Life

    A Port of Seattle promotional image featuring a dolphin or orca dorsal fin breaking the surface of calm water, with mountains visible in the background. The image promotes the Port's deployment of underwater technology to study how noise affects marine life, under their 'It All Adds Up Sea Change' environmental initiative.
    TagsEnvironment, Marine, Noise, Port Of Seattle
  • 2025-08-08

    Port Of Seattle Container Terminal Aerial View With Elliott Bay and Seattle Skyline

    Aerial view of the Port of Seattle's container terminal (Terminal 18 or similar facility) showing stacked intermodal shipping containers and cargo cranes, with Elliott Bay and the downtown Seattle skyline visible in the background, including the Seattle Great Wheel ferris wheel on the waterfront. This image depicts Port of Seattle maritime operations, unrelated to Sea-Tac Airport noise policy.
    TagsMarine, Maritime, Port Of Seattle, Seattle
  • 2025-04-09

    U.S. Withdraws from Critical IMO Climate Meeting, Threatens Retaliation Over Emissions Pricing

    Mike Schuler In a dramatic development at the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting in London, the Trump administration has announced the United States’ withdrawal from crucial maritime decarbonization negotiations taking place this week. The US government delivered a strongly worded message to IMO delegations, explicitly rejecting any measures that would impose
    CategoriesFrom The Web TagsgCaptain, Greenhouse gases, Marine
  • 2024-06-27

    Seattle Waterfront with Crown Princess Cruise Ship

    The Princess Cruises ship 'Crown Princess' is docked at Smith Cove Cruise Terminal (Terminal 91) in Seattle, Washington, with the Seattle skyline and Space Needle visible in the background. A bulk carrier vessel is also visible transiting Elliott Bay.
    TagsAviation International News, Cruise Ships, Marine, Port Of Seattle, Seattle
  • Carnival Spirit Cruise Ship Docked at Port Of Seattle with Space Needle in Background

    The Carnival Spirit cruise ship is docked at the Port of Seattle, with the Seattle Space Needle and downtown skyline visible in the background. Image is credited to Anthony Bolante for PSBJ (Puget Sound Business Journal).
    TagsCruise Ships, Marine, Port Of Seattle, Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle
  • TCF Architecture Rendering of Waterfront Building — Port of Tacoma

    A dusk/evening architectural rendering of a modern angular building with a white paneled roof situated on a rocky waterfront. The image bears a visible watermark crediting 'TCF Architecture' in the lower right corner.
    TagsMarine, Maritime, Port of Tacoma
  • Maury Island Barge Path to Des Moines Beach Park

    A Google Earth satellite image (Landsat/Copernicus imagery) showing a red polygon outlining an area of Puget Sound near Vashon Island, with yellow pins marking Glacier Northwest and Des Moines Beach Park. The map covers approximately 4 miles of water between what appears to be a peninsula near Glacier Northwest's facility and the Des Moines, Washington shoreline.
    TagsDes Moines, Map, Marine, Puget Sound
  • SSA Terminals Seattle – Container Ship Loading Intermodal Cargo

    Cranes branded 'SSA Terminals' load or unload stacked intermodal shipping containers onto a large container vessel. Visible container markings include ONE (Ocean Network Express), UASC, CMAU, K Line, and Hapag-Lloyd, indicating international cargo operations at an SSA Terminals-operated port facility.
    TagsCargo, Marine, Northwest Seaport Alliance, Port Of Seattle, Shipping
  • 2022-05-18

    PNW Green Corridor for Cruise Ships – Seattle Times Map

    A map published by The Seattle Times (credit: Mark Nowlin) shows three ports committed as of May 18 to launching a 'green corridor' for cruise ships: City and Borough of Juneau, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, and Port of Seattle. The corridor aims to support new technologies to reduce the cruise industry's carbon emissions along the Pacific coast route from Washington state through British Columbia to Alaska.
    TagsAlternative Fuels, Cruise Ships, Marine, Port Of Seattle, Seattle Times
  • Each Day A Cruise Ship Emits As Much Pollution As A Million Cars

    Air quality on cruise ship deck ‘worse than world’s most polluted cities’, investigation finds. Levels of pollution on some cruise ships’ decks are worse than in the world’s most polluted cities, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has found. The undercover investigation on Britain’s biggest crew operator P&O Cruises aimed to find out how clean the air holidaymakers breathe
    CategoriesFrom The Web TagsCruise Ships, Green World Warriors, Marine

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Sea-Tac Airport is currently undergoing the largest and longest expansion in its history, collectively known as the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). Some of it you can already hear, but you’re probably not aware of what it all means. Here’s what you need to know.
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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.
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