by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Environment, Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals
By MARK CARDWELL As buried treasures go, centuries-old sediment from the bottom of a bay likely wouldn’t make it onto most people’s Top-Ten list. But for marine bio-geographer Emilie Saulnier-Talbot, the core samples that were extracted from the Bay of Sept-Îles this...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By MARK CARDWELL When the Pointe-aux-Basques terminal was built by the federal government in Sept-Îles in 1950, it was designed primarily to support the new iron ore mining operations that were then being launched in and around the Labrador Trough, 600 kilometres...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Corporate events & profiles, Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals
By MARK CARDWELL To hear Luc Charest tell it, active volunteerism, and gestures of goodwill by residents and local businesses is the spice of life in a remote community like Sept-Îles. “Being involved and getting people together in fun, healthy ways is what it’s all...
by CanadianSailings | Nov 18, 2019 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Ports and Terminals
by Mark Cardwell The Port of Sept-Îles will likely fall a few million tonnes short in 2019 of its all-time annual record of 35 million tonnes for volume handled. But that record will fall in 2020 and in the years that follow, top port officials say, now that the...
by Canadian Sailings | Feb 4, 2018 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals
By Mark Cardwell Pierre Gagnon is no stranger to the business of mining iron ore. A mining engineer by trade, he worked several years for Quebec Cartier Mining (now part of ArcelorMittal) in the town of Fermont before joining Port of Sept-Îles as President and Chief...
by Canadian Sailings | Feb 4, 2018 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Ocean, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Mark Cardwell The port of Sept-Îles is quickly becoming a popular international cruise ship destination in Eastern Canada. Eight years after its inaugural cruise season, when it welcomed three ships with 5,000 passengers, the port was visited eight times by five...
