by Canadian Sailings 2023 | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of Saint John Port Authority, Allen Bodechon was elected Chair of the Board by his peers for a two-year term. Allen Bodechon has over 36 years of law enforcement experience at all levels of government and is the...
by Canadian Sailings 2023 | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
M/V New Explorer, a Liberian registered vessel sailing from Egypt, was the first ship to arrive in Sept-Îles this year at 8 a.m. on January 5, 2018. The vessel arrived in ballast and set sail again on January 6, 2018 with 77,000 tons of iron ore from IOC Rio Tinto...
by Canadian Sailings 2023 | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
Lowlands Opal is the first ocean-going vessel from an overseas port to reach the port of Trois-Rivières in 2018, docking on January 4, at 1:10 p.m., following a 16-day non-stop Atlantic voyage. The vessel, with its crew of 20 Indian and Filipino seafarers, had left...
by Canadian Sailings 2023 | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
Montreal Port Authority President and CEO Sylvie Vachon awarded Port of Montreal’s Gold-headed Cane to Captain Rakesh Kumar, Master of Ottawa Express, the first ocean-going vessel to reach the port of Montreal without a stopover in 2018. Ottawa Express left Liverpool,...
by Canadian Sailings 2023 | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
By Jason Zuidema Representatives of the Port and supporting communities gathered on November 23 for a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially re-open Mariners’ House, the seafarers centre in the port of Montreal. Robert Zeagman, President of Seagulf Marine Industries...
