by CanadianSailings | Mar 25, 2013 | Business and Economy, Government and Regulation, Trucking
The Canadian Trucking Alliance welcomed the federal government’s Canada-U.S. Beyond the Border Action Plan Implementation Report and anticipates more progress to be made in 2013. Since the binational Border Action Plan was announced a year ago by Prime Minister...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 25, 2013 | Other, Ports and Terminals, Rail, Supply Chain and Logistics
During the strategic planning that resulted in the adoption of On Course for 2020 by the Board of Directors of Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA), it was determined that the railway network was strategic to the growth of the port. Accordingly, TRPA and Quebec...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 25, 2013 | Brian Dunn, Business and Economy, Corporate events & profiles, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By Brian Dunn In the spring of 1845, river pilot Jacques Sincennes established La Compagnie du Richelieu with a single paddle steamer to help farmers get their goods up the Richelieu River and along the St. Lawrence River to market in Montreal. Similar inland shipping...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 25, 2013 | Corporate events & profiles, Mark Cardwell, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other, Shipbuilding and Repair
By Mark Cardwell When he started out as a marine navigator on the Great Lakes in the early 1980s (sailing on older vessels built in the 1950s), Kirk Jones says turning the desk-sized wheels on lakers required all the strength a man could muster. “They had telemotor...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 25, 2013 | Business and Economy, Jack Kohane, Other, Ports and Terminals
By Jack Kohane Hilary Goldenberg, President of Thunder Bay Terminals Ltd. (TBTL), isn’t a geologist but she knows tonnes about coal, an age-old fossil fuel that is been getting some bad press of late. But when Goldenberg talks up the merits of coal, people listen....
