Vancouver attracts U.S.-flag lines. (Port of Vancouver)

Sea-Land adds the Canadian port to its Pacific-Asia Express rotation. Matson considers running a feeder ship there.

Sea-Land Service, Inc., has added Vancouver, British Columbia, to the port rotation in its Pacific Northwest-Far East service, and Matson Navigation Co. might start weekly, coastwise feeder to Vancouver this month.

Sea-Land, which had served Vancouver by truck and barge, began sending its ships there after the recent Teamsters' strike halted the carrier's operations at Tacoma.

But Sea-Land began considering adding Vancouver to its so-called Pacific-Asia Express (PAX) port rotation a couple of months before the Teamsters' walkout, according to …