Trade Winds, Cover, October, Agriculture

Cultivating foreign Soil

A growing hunger in developing nations for Western-style cuisine is supersizing farm exports from the state of Washington.

The state's farmers and food processors sold more than $2.2 billion worth of fruit, vegetables, wheat and...

Trade Winds, Media, Cover, October

Mobile media for the masses

To Vidiator Technology Inc., text messaging is so five minutes ago. And it's testimony to the Bellevue software company's good business sense that it initially decided to carry that attitude to just about everywhere in the world...

Trade Winds, Manufacturing, Cover, October, Agriculture

No rust belt here

Back in the late 1950s, dairy farmers in Grays Harbor would haul their malfunctioning pumps from their fields to Jim Vaughan's welding shop. The pumps typically would clog with twine and straw, and word soon spread that Jim could...

Trade Winds, Cover, October

White collar Exports

If you know about student loans, credit cards, microfinance or crop insurance, you might give Liu Mingkang a call.  Liu is former chairman of the stateowned Bank of China. Now, as the man in charge of China's Banking...

Trade Winds, October, Cover, Agriculture

A culture of trade

In this epoch of globalization, when so much depends on successful trading strategies – and with so many cities, states and provinces marketing themselves as international business centers, just how secure is Washington's...

Trade Winds, March

Maverick Alec Fisken Takes On The Port

Alec Fisken, Renegade Port Commissioner. Gadfly. Maverick. Somehow this reputation seems at odds with the man's unassuming comportment before his election to public office. His grandfather ran a Seattle shipping company, Burchard...

Features, Trade Winds, March

Finding Safe Harbor

The port?s new pilot confronts a legacy of inefficiency and pollution

Trade Winds, November

Port of Seattle CEO Mic Dinsmore

He muses about what?s good for the port, and for the region

Technology, Trade Winds, OutFront, October

Vancouver Ventures

VANCOUVER – Electric Lightwave LLC, a communications network services provider, was sold to Portland-based Integra Telecom Inc. for $247 million and is moving most of its jobs to Portland. The combined company will employ...