by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Top Stories
By Alex Binkley The delay in opening the St. Lawrence Seaway system this spring because of high water levels in the Great Lakes has generated understandable frustration among shipping lines and their customers. It also presents an opportunity for the waterway to test...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Featured, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Alex Binkley While it doesn’t yet attract the attention that ocean tours on massive floating hotels do, cruising on the Great Lakes has been gaining popularity during the last two decades, and could become even more fashionable during the next few years as other...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Corporate events & profiles, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By Alex Binkley The ports of Thunder Bay and Valleyfield could be seen as the proverbial bookends of the Seaway-Great Lakes system, and they are both beefing up their facilities for handling breakbulk and project cargoes. Other ports on the Great Lakes, including...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Government and Regulation, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Alex Binkley More than a year has passed since Transport Canada closed its public consultation on the future of the 17 Port Authorities across the country, but no one has any inkling of what the next step might be. The last item in the November 2019 mandate letter...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Ocean Carriers, Other, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Alex Binkley The extra week of shipping through the Welland Canal in early January generated 16 vessel transits and that result had shipping lines and ports hoping this year’s experiment will be turned into a five-year pilot project. A little more than a month...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2019 | Alex Binkley, Business and Economy, Gateways and Corridors, Ocean, Other, Rail, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Alex Binkley Melius Energy of Calgary has partnered with BitCrude to market a semi-solid bitumen that can be shipped in marine containers to refineries in North America and overseas for further processing. Melius was formed earlier this year in the belief that...
