Editor’s Note: The following are the remarks that NPI’s President, Gael Tarleton, delivered at the first regular meeting of the Seattle Port Commission for 2012, following her election as President of the Commission for the remainder of the year.
Thank you, fellow Commissioners, for the opportunity to serve this coming year as President of the Port of Seattle Commission.
We are indebted to Commissioner Bryant for his three years serving as Commission President. He led the Commission and Port with dignity through a tough recession and a period of important institutional reforms. He ended his term on a high note with the Port’s Centennial celebrations. We are all grateful to you, Bill.
Now the Port enters its second century.
Every year there are new challenges to meet and milestones to mark. As we confront the changes that will inevitably come, we can reflect on eras past when technology revolutionized trade and travel by air and sea.
This second decade of the 21st century has the feel of another era fifty years ago — the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. In 1962, Seattle’s World’s Fair bumped SeaTac passenger traffic from 400,000 to 2,000,000 travellers.
The shipping container revolutionized the maritime shipping industry and Terminal 5 began construction as the Port of Seattle’s first container terminal.
And in December 1962, the Port dedicated Shilshole Bay Marina.
2012 is shaping up as one of those years that feels like a defining moment for local ports competing in a local economy.
Open government is here to stay in Washington State – and finally, web-based technology makes it possible for the Port of Seattle to live up to the expectations and promise of what transparent, accountable open government looks like.
We have built a twenty-five year vision for sustaining a working seaport and airport in the midst of urban Pugetopolis, along the shores of one of the most biologically diverse inland seas in North America, the Salish Sea – more commonly known as Puget Sound. Ten years from now, we’ll look back on the start of our race to the future — and maybe, we’ll see this:
All that we do in the coming year is just one more building block towards a 21st century future where the Port of Seattle is still the place where the world comes to us, and we go out to the world. Let’s keep doing our part.
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