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Article: Alaska-Puget Sound partnership beneficial to both communities: two-way trade helps states, cities to grow.
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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For more than 100 years, Alaska has relied on the Puget Sound area to provide goods and services to the 49th state. From early gold rush pioneers who bought and transported their supplies from Seattle, to Alaska's automobile dealers who fill their lots with cars shipped from Washington by barge, Puget Sound has always been a supply pipeline for those living on the Last Frontier.
Just as Alaska benefits from the services provided by this area of Washington state, so do the cities that surround Puget Sound. In economically tough times, it was the Alaska market that helped to keep the doors open at many Puget Sound companies and helped to keep people working. And as ...