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Each year, we recognize the strong, supportive relationships we share with our customers and tenants by honoring three with Summit Awards for their outstanding contributions to Port business and our community.
Presented at our Annual Breakfast in April, award winners are recognized in three categories.
Business Magnet: MacMillan-Piper
With a presence in Tacoma since 1985, MacMillan-Piper currently handles bulk and provides warehouse transloading services at two facilities in the Tacoma Tideflats.
In the past year, the company doubled its warehouse transloading space to 202,000 feet to support handling bulk cargoes. MacMillan-Piper also reduced the number of idling and draying trucks by unloading import containers and loading them with exports in the same location, helping to improve air quality.
Environmental Stewardship: Totem Ocean Trailer Express
Port terminal operator Totem Ocean Trailer Express, which serves the Alaska trade, was the first commercial cargo carrier in the Puget Sound to install shore power. Its ships now plug into electricity while at berth, reducing diesel emissions.
The ISO certified company (in Quality, Environmental and Safety) was also the first to install rain gardens at a marine terminal to manage stormwater quality. The gardens now serve as a demonstration project for other industrial sites interested in innovative, inexpensive ways to meet state water quality benchmarks.
Livable Community: International Labor and Warehouse Union Local 23
In 2011, the Port's longshore labor partners donated more than $200,000 in money and goods during holiday toy drives, auctions, walks and other fundraisers that benefited schools and local agencies, including the Foss Waterway Seaport Working Waterfront Museum, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and the YWCA women's shelter.
Union members also volunteered thousands of hours for such organizations as Tall Ships Tacoma, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk, Rainier School, St. Leo's Hospitality Kitchen and Paint Tacoma-Pierce County Beautiful.
2012 recipients were selected by a panel that included Port Commission President Dick Marzano, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland, Bonnie Giese from the Tacoma Transportation Club and Dr. Joel Baker, the Port of Tacoma Endowed Chair for the University of Washington Tacoma at the Center for Urban Waters.
Nominate top performers in one of three categories of leadership:
- Business Magnet
A Port customer or member of the supply chain (shipper, transportation or logistics service provider, developer) for business development efforts and investments that lead to recognizable increase in business volume or new business opportunities for the Port of Tacoma, and have a positive economic effect for the citizens of Pierce County.
Business Magnet nomination form
- Livable Community
A Port customer or tenant for a project, program or initiative that demonstrates the business community's positive contribution to Pierce County through social responsibility. Criteria include philanthropy and charitable giving, community service and employee volunteering, community engagement and outreach, and employee development.
Livable Community nomination form
- Environmental Stewardship
A Port customer or tenant for a project, program or initiative that supports Pierce County's sustainability and honors biodiversity and the interconnected nature of industry, people, wildlife and natural systems.
Environmental Stewardship nomination form
Self nominations are welcome and encouraged. Recipients will be chosen by a panel of community and business leaders, led by a Port Commissioner.
In addition to recognition as a Summit Award winner at our Annual Breakfast in April, recipients receive:
- a Summit Awards flag and plaque to mark the organization as a top performer
- listing on a plaque at the Port's administrative offices as a Summit Award winner
- inclusion in Port communications
Email, fax or mail completed nomination forms to Larry Kvidera at: