by CS | Oct 4, 2021 | Keith Norbury
BY KEITH NORBURY About six months after Toronto-based XTL Transport Inc. bought the refrigeration assets of Quebec City’s Transport Savoie, the new owner is happy with its acquisition. “We’re pleased with the early results and have identified many growth opportunities...
by CS | Oct 4, 2021 | Keith Norbury
BY KEITH NORBURY The sun is rising on innovations to power reefer units on Class 8 truck trailers through solar energy. Solar panels have become prevalent on reefer trailers in recent years to provide auxiliary power for “parasitic loads” like telematics and liftgates...
by CS | Oct 4, 2021 | Keith Norbury
BY KEITH NORBURY A year ago, though, as those vaccines were winding their way through the Health Canada approval process, the Canadian government appeared to have given little thought to how to transport those vaccines to their destinations. For example, the federal...
by CS | Oct 4, 2021 | Keith Norbury, Rail
BY KEITH NORBURY Work is underway on permanent fixes to the Hudson Bay Railway that connects Manitoba’s Port of Churchill with the rest of Canada. The solution is geocells, or cellular confinement technology, that enclose sand and rock in honeycombed plastic...
by CS | Sep 6, 2021 | Keith Norbury, Ocean, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By KEITH NORBURY The port of Valleyfield now has more room for breakbulk and project cargo. That’s because Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping, which had used Valleyfield as a staging location for its service to Arctic communities for about two decades, relocated to...
by Canadian Sailings | Sep 6, 2021 | Business and Economy, Keith Norbury, Other
By Keith Norbury Having attended several Breakbulk Americas conferences in recent years, Kevin Kwateng is looking forward to returning to Houston in late September for the event, which was last held in 2019. “I plan on going, as long as there are not too many issues...
