Transportation and Maritime Industry Sector
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber works to support transportation and maritime in our region as a key building block of the economy.
We recognize the unique needs and issues faced by our distinct industries, and we work to provide events and advocacy that serves them best. Find news, advocacy work and events tailored just for transportation and maritime below.
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What It Takes To Make Government Work – Part 3: When Compassion Has No Destination
San Francisco built a humane alternative between jail and walking away. Seattle already has many of the pieces to do the same. Part Three of a four-part series on what Seattle can learn from San Francisco Some of our most compassionate public policies are written as...
What It Takes To Make Government Work – Part 3: When Compassion Has No Destination
San Francisco built a humane alternative between jail and walking away. Seattle already has many of the pieces to do the same. Part Three of a four-part series on what Seattle can learn from San Francisco Some of our most compassionate public policies are written as...
Businesses Now Pay Two-Thirds of Seattle’s Taxes while Seattle Is Losing Jobs for the first time in Decades
SEATTLE, Oct. 5, 2026 — Seattle’s tax collections have grown substantially faster than the city’s population, employment and inflation over the past decade, according to a new analysis commissioned by the Downtown Seattle Association and the Seattle Metro Chamber. The...
What It Takes To Make Government Work-Part 2: Government Is Not a Workgroup
San Francisco did not need another coordinating body to coordinate the existing coordinating bodies. It needed the people already at the table to make decisions. Seattle and this region have rarely encountered a hard decision that could not be handed to a workgroup....
What It Takes to Make Government Work- Part 1: It Is Safer to Fail Quietly Than to Succeed Publicly
I am writing this somewhere between San Francisco and Seattle, on the flight home after several days spent trying to understand a city that appears to be changing in real time. Like many people, I had been watching that change from a distance. I followed Mayor Daniel...
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