Remote yard monitoring in Tacoma

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Freight along the Tideflats and I-5

The Port of Tacoma sits in the Tideflats, an industrial waterway district also known as the Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats site, and ranks as the sixth-busiest container port in North America, moving 9 to 13 million tons of cargo and more than $25 billion in commerce a year. More than 70 percent of its containers move out by rail on BNSF, Union Pacific or the short-line Tacoma Rail, and together with the Port of Seattle, the two ports' Northwest Seaport Alliance handled 3,340,733 TEUs in 2024, up 12.3 percent over the year before. Port activity supports more than 43,000 jobs in Pierce County, and the terminals sit within reach of I-5, with Fife, Puyallup and Lakewood all close by.

Loaded trailers staged near the port are a target when nobody's watching them. On January 30, 2026, a truck towing a cargo trailer packed with a family's belongings was stolen from the 7000 block of South Lawrence Street in Tacoma; the owner later spotted the trailer for sale online, and a search warrant in March led officers to recover it along with an arrest. The same exposure applies to any Tacoma yard where a trailer or tractor sits overnight without a camera being watched live.

Every camera on a Tacoma yard is watched live by a Sigma agent, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including weekends and holidays. Movement after hours trips the AI detection, an agent looks at the live video before doing anything else, gives a live, instant talk-down through the speakers and escalates to police with recorded clips. Yard Operations adds truck and trailer logs and damage inspections for loads moving through the Tideflats.

Also covering Fife, Lakewood, Puyallup, University Place, Federal Way, Sumner, Edgewood, DuPont.