The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) has announced that its container volumes hit 309,993 TEUs in March 2025, up 18.5 per cent from the previous year.
Full international imports rose 18.4 per cent, reported NWSA, marking 13 straight months of growth.
Year-to-date (YTD), volumes are up 19 per cent, with imports up 26.6 per cent and exports flat.
Meanwhile, BNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern, and the NWSA launched a new intermodal service from the PNW to Chicago, cutting transit time by three days.
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Improved transit and reduced on-dock dwell have cut the ship-to-Chicago time to six days—the fastest of any PNW gateway in North America.
Year-to-date, domestic container volumes rose 2.2 per cent, with Alaska up 1.1 per cent and Hawaii up 7.5 per cent.
In March, NWSA announced that its February 2025 volumes hit 257,705 TEUs, up 13.7 per cent from February 2024. Full foreign imports surged 27.9 per cent, marking a full year of straight month-over-month growth and placing the gateway 4.8 per cent above its five-year average for the month.
