by Canadian Sailings | May 16, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Corporate events & profiles
By Brian Dunn
McKeil Marine of Burlington, ON, has been chosen as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies in 2018 by Deloitte Canada’s leading business awards program, which recognizes excellence in privately-owned Canadian companies.
For over 60 years (celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016), McKeil has been providing marine transportation and project services for bulk and project shipments throughout the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, East Coast and Arctic. It recently moved its head office to Burlington from Hamilton and has sales offices in Montreal, Rothesay, NB, and St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. (more…)
by Canadian Sailings | Apr 5, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Other
By Brian Dunn
The University of Manitoba is building the largest sea-ice research institute in the world in Churchill to detect the effects of oil spills in Arctic waters. The facility, called the Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO) & Network on Oil Spills in Ice-Covered Arctic Waters, is being headed by Feiyue Wang, Canada Research Chair in Arctic Environment Chemistry, University of Manitoba.
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by Canadian Sailings | Feb 25, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Other
By Brian Dunn
With an opportunity to tap the European market under the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), coupled with the uncertain future of NAFTA, more and more Canadian companies are looking for export markets outside North America. But how does one get into those markets?
“It takes good partners and a unique product, but the key is your employees and suppliers,” according to Martin Plante, General Director, Citadelle, Quebec’s largest cooperative of sugar maple growers and maple syrup producers. Mr. Plante made the remarks during a Food, Beverage and Logistics Conference at the Port of Montreal Building on Nov. 29. The conference was organized by MNP, a national accounting, tax and business consulting firm, in conjunction with Port of Montreal, Montreal Gateway Terminals, La Coop Fédérée, the largest agri-food cooperative in Quebec and Agri-Food Export Group.
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by Canadian Sailings | Feb 25, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Other
By Brian Dunn
According to the Coasting Trade Act of 1992, only Canadian-flagged vessels (or duty-paid vessels) may carry goods or passengers or conduct commercial activities between two Canadian ports. The exception is if a foreign vessel obtains a coasting trade (cabotage) licence for a specific job that a Canadian vessel cannot perform or is unavailable to perform.
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by Canadian Sailings | Feb 25, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Other
By Brian Dunn
Montreal terminal operator GT Group is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year as the company reflects on its humble beginnings. In 1965, company founder Giuseppe Terrigno (hence GT Group) arrived in Canada as a welder. Four years later, someone approached him who needed a container repaired. At the time, Terrigno was building trailers. He tried to convince his boss that there might be a new business opportunity, but his boss wasn’t interested, although he said Mr. Terrigno could do the job in his free time. He put a welding machine in the back of his car and repaired his first container.
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by Canadian Sailings | Feb 25, 2018 | Brian Dunn, Other
By Brian Dunn
The humble container means nothing to most people, except those in the shipping industry. It has been around for decades and revolutionized how cargo is transported today. Last year, Port of Montreal celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first containers at the port.
“We look at the container and what we do with our ships as a true element of the world and how the people in the world function,” said Sokat Shaikh, President, MSC Canada. “Over the course of the years that I’ve worked at the company, you come to realize that as simple as a container is, and the cargo that goes into that container, moving it from Point A to Point B with our ships is not that simple because it’s a complex logistics grid. “But aside from the complexity of the logistics grid, which is our responsibility, it’s what it (the container) does and what the products inside the container represent.”
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