For the first time in 36 years, the Port of Tacoma is updating its public identity.

The port, which has just unveiled a new strategic plan, is discarding its flag-like, red, white and blue logo and replacing it with a logo that features a series of intersecting curved lines.

Port of Tacoma new logo

Port of Tacoma old logo

Along with the new visual identity, the port has adopted a new motto: People. Partnership. Performance.

The new logo, which retains the red and blue colors of

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Joining the ranks of Trident Seafoods (2011), Paccar (2008), Eddie Bauer (1995), SuperValu (1991) and Microsoft (1987), Tacoma-based Brown & Haley has been awarded “Trader of the Year” honors by Seattle’s World Trade Club.

“These awards are an opportunity to celebrate the outstanding leadership and innovation in our international trade community,” said Julie Bennion, club president.

The awards – which include Trader of the Year and Emerging Trader of the Year – were given in April at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle.

Brown & Haley, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year – and its 85th year …

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A Seattle-based construction company has been fined $10,000 for spilling 177 gallons of diesel into the Blair Waterway.

The Washington State Department of Ecology announced the fine Monday. The spill happened Oct. 29, 2010, when Manson Construction Co. was transferring fuel from a tugboat to a barge.

Manson “failed to monitor the transfer and the tank level of the (barge), and consequently diesel fuel overflowed,” according to an Ecology news release.

The spill happened just off the Washington United Terminal at the Port of Tacoma.

Of the 177 gallons spilled, 168 were recovered from the water, the news release said. …

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The Port of Tacoma has named three winners of its first annual Summit Awards for their outstanding contributions to the port’s business and the Pierce County community.

The winners are:

* MacMillan-Piper — Business Magnet Award

This company transloads containers at two facilities in the Tacoma Tideflats.

“In the past year, the company double its warehouse transloading space to 202,000 feet to support handling bulk cargoes. MacMillan-Piper also reduced the number of idleing and draying trucks by unloading import containers and load them with exports in the same location, helping to improve air quality,” the port said in making …

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The Port of Tacoma’s critical container trade increased by 2.1 percent in March compared with March of last year, but the port’s container numbers still are nearly 2 percent behind last year’s through March.

The year-to-date deficiency was lead by domestic container numbers, down 9.3 percent through last month. International containers were up 1.5 percent in that same period, according to port figures.

While containerized cargo was a mixed bag of increases and declines, the port’s breakbulk business delivered a stellar performance, but 93.2 percent to date through March.
Breakbulk cargo is cargo too oddly shaped or too large …

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Sea-Tac Airport’s garage adjacent to the airline terminal is offering a $99 weekly rate for spring break.

That rate is good from now through April 16. The special rate is a discount of $31 over the garage’s regular weekly rate.

The discounted price is available with a coupon found on the airport’s website. The offer is only good for the general parking levels at the airport garage, not the Terminal Direct Level, level 4.

Passenger traffic at Sea-Tac Airport jumped by nearly 7 percent in February, new figures from the airport show.

That increase, 6.68 percent for the month, follows a 2011 that saw new records for airport passenger traffic set at Sea-Tac.

For the first two months of 2012 the airport is reporting passenger volumes increased by 2.92 percent.

Those increases came in all categories, both in domestic and international traffic and outbound and inbound travelers.

In February, 2,242,035 passengers used the airport’s facilities compared with 2,101,559 in February 2011. That’s an increase of 140,476.

Cargo traffic also saw an increase. That …

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Two more cruise ships will begin calling on Seattle in 2013 increasing the port’s repertoire of vessels that visit Alaska during warmer weather months.

Both Oceania Cruise Lines and Celebrity Cruises say they will homeport new ships in Seattle for the Alaska cruise season which generally begins in May and lasts until late September.

Celebrity will bring one of its larger ships, the 2,850-passenger Solstice, to Seattle’s Smith Cove Terminal next year. The 1,041-foot ship was built in 2008. That vessel will call on Seattle 19 times in 2013.

Oceana Cruises has announced it will begin calling on Seattle …

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