Overview
Port Jobs has published research investigating the availability of jobs in the transportation industry. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics: Entry Level Jobs in King County (funded by the Northwest Area Foundation) examines what makes up the transportation, distribution and logistics sector in King County and where promising entry level jobs are in that field.
More recently, we have explored Seattle's short-haul trucking industry, and examined how growing opportunities in logistics and international trade sector might replace disappearing jobs in the manufacturing industry.
In Detail
An emerging areas of interest currently under study is logistics and international trade. Port Jobs, a member of the Prosperity Partnership, is exploring this growing sector of the economy.
Employment in Logistics and International Trade
Published in 2006, this report found that in the Seattle area, the LIT sector can provide good career and wage opportunities similar to those once available in the Manufacturing sector. Click here to read this report.
Trucking
If your image of an American truck driver looks anything like Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit, think again. Since the heyday of CB radios, interstate commerce has been deregulated, and a global explosion of intermodal shipping has changed the way goods move around the world. Click here to read this report.
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