The Port of Tacoma approved a new budget that anticipates continued growth in 2007 and doesn't increase taxes.
Rising property values and new construction mean the port generates more money from the same tax rate, which reportedly has remained the same for nearly a decade. Profit should rise 28 percent, partly thanks to the port's booming traffic.
Soaring land values also bailed out the Port of Seattle. It forecast increased revenues from higher property assessments and kept its higher levy rate basically unchanged. Traffic through Seattle, though, has been declining.