Trade

47 Stories

Environment

Ship that spilled 100+ containers could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters

The ship that spilled more than 100 shipping containers off the Washington coast was in a holding pattern on the open ocean when it could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters.
John Ryan
Environment

Big shippers promise zero carbon by 2040. Too late, say climate activists

Major shippers including Amazon and Ikea say they will stop putting their stuff on ships that burn fossil fuels in the next 20 years.
John Ryan
Environment

Ship that spilled 40 containers off Olympic Peninsula catches fire. Spills 2 more

“You have been advised to evacuate the entire vessel,” a coast guard official radioed the captain. “All crew members and captain included. Over.” “Negative, sir,” the captain replied from the burning ship.
John Ryan
Environment

Cargo ship spills 40 shipping containers off Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

A cargo ship heading from South Korea to Canada hit rough seas and spilled about 40 shipping containers off the Olympic Peninsula Friday morning.
John Ryan
Environment

Northwest ports pledge to stop air pollution (29 years from now)

The Northwest’s biggest ports promise to stop polluting the air — 29 years from now.
John Ryan
Business

Speed, small talk led to oil-tanker crash, feds find

A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas was coming in too fast and at too steep an angle when it crashed into a wharf at Cherry Point, north of Bellingham, Washington, the National Transportation Safety Board has found. It didn’t help that the ship’s captain and a harbor pilot engaged in two minutes of “non-pertinent conversation” on the bridge as the big ship closed in on the dock.
John Ryan
Business

Businesses Try To Navigate The World's Coronavirus Cargo Pileup

There was a rush of commerce after China reopened. But then demand in the West for many goods dropped, with businesses closing and consumers staying home as the pandemic spread.
Jackie Northam
Business

'A Lot To Be Hopeful For': Crisis Seen As Historic, Not Another Great Depression

The speed and scale of the economic crash have drawn comparisons to the Great Depression. But this downturn should be shorter, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economic historians say.
Scott Horsley
Politics

A cop shot this wooden bullet at me at the WTO protests in Seattle. Here’s the story it tells

During the WTO protests, a police officer shot a wooden bullet at me. It bounced off the wall, and landed at my feet. It didn’t hurt me. But it shattered something: A myth about what Seattle was in 1999 and what it could give to the rest of the world.
Joshua McNichols
Business

Has The Trade War Taken A Bite Out Of China's Economy? Yes — But It's Complicated

China's economic growth has been slowing down for years. Tariffs have contributed to slower growth since early 2018, when the economic standoff began, but it's hard to pinpoint how much.
Jolie Myers

Ailsa Chang

Sam Gringlas

Mallory Yu

2 of 5