Port of Tacoma exports vehicles to Asia

12/23/2008 9:41:48 AM

After importing vehicles through the Port of Tacoma for the past 26 years, Mitsubishi Motors recently changed direction and started exporting vehicles to Asia.   The Mitsubishi Eclipse sports cars are built at the Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois, and transported by rail - first by Norfolk Southern to Kansas City and then transferred to Union Pacific for hauling to the Port of Tacoma's Marshall Avenue Auto Facility.   There the vehicles are loaded onto Wallenius Wilhelmsen Line vessels for export to China and South Korea.   Randy Casebolt, manager of national port operations for Mitsubishi Motors North America, said the company expects to export about 400 vehicles through Tacoma during its fiscal year ending March 31st, and approximately 500 units the following year.   The Port of Tacoma handles a total of around 170,000 vehicles a year.   Eyefortransport

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