The ports of Tacoma and Seattle, when combined as The Northwest Seaport Alliance, ranked highest on the U.S. West Coast and second overall in the West Coast category in Logistics Management’s 2016 Quest for Quality awards.

Winners were selected by the magazine’s readers—the buyers of logistics and transportation services.

Readers evaluated ports using five criteria: ease of doing business, value, ocean carrier network, intermodal network, and equipment and operations. A port had to receive at least 5 percent of the category vote to win.

“(O)cean shippers tell us that the 17 ports walking away with Quest for Quality gold in 2016 were stepping up with world class service during a time when so much was still unsettled in the global ocean freight arena,” the magazine reported.

The complete list of winners is featured in the magazine’s August issue at http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/.