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Port Commits Additional $3 Million to Community Benefit Programs to Aid COVID-19 Recovery

Thu, Jun 25, 2020

Port of Seattle Commissioners this week approved new COVID-19 recovery measures by committing an additional $3 million to community benefit programs.    The additional $3 million commitment will go to short-term, recove...

Spend Like It Matters: Black-owned Businesses and Makers at SEA

Wed, Jun 24, 2020

Recent events in our local community and across the U.S. are spotlighting a checkered history of systemic racism that continues to impact our communities and essential institutions. The Port will continue to use our policy platfor...

Spend Like It Matters: Black-owned Businesses and Makers at SEA

Wed, Jun 24, 2020

Recent events in our local community and across the U.S. are spotlighting a checkered history of systemic racism that continues to impact our communities and essential institutions. The Port will continue to use our policy platfor...

Port Enacts Police Department Policy Changes, Announces Department Assessment

Tue, Jun 23, 2020

Port of Seattle Executive Director Steve Metruck announced today immediate changes to Port of Seattle Police Department protocols regarding hiring practices, commitment to diversity, and use of force. Executive Director Metruck al...

Port Enacts Police Department Policy Changes, Announces Department Assessment

Tue, Jun 23, 2020

Port of Seattle Executive Director Steve Metruck announced today immediate changes to Port of Seattle Police Department protocols regarding hiring practices, commitment to diversity, and use of force. Executive Director Metruck al...

Barb Wilson Hired as Port of Seattle Commission Chief of Staff

Tue, Jun 23, 2020

Barb Wilson joins the Port of Seattle as the Chief of Staff for its five-member elected body, the Port of Seattle Commission. Wilson brings 25 years of experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors in Seattle. "We ar...

Support Black-owned Businesses

Mon, Jun 22, 2020

A portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth," Juneteenth celebrates emancipation an and the abolition of slavery. On June 19, 1865 — two months after the U.S. victory over the Confederacy, and two years since the Emancipation Proclama...

What Does Juneteenth Mean to Me? 

Fri, Jun 19, 2020

Delmas Whittaker, C.M., is the Maritime Division Senior Manager, Fishing and Commercial Vessels at the Port of Seattle. Delmas is a retired naval officer who served our country for 25 years in active duty. Now retired from the U.S...

Commission President Steinbrueck and Executive Director Metruck Juneteenth Statement

Thu, Jun 18, 2020

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the former confederate state of Texas, June 19, 1865, where the news came two- and one-half years late, after Lincoln's original Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Though Juneteenth mark...

Doubling Down on Cleaning at SEA

Thu, Jun 11, 2020

This time of year prompts spring cleaning in homes and public spaces, but this year has seen bolstered cleaning efforts in response to the global pandemic.  At the beginning of COVID-19, Seattle-Tacoma International Airp...

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