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...
by Canadian Sailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Other
By Mark Cardwell When he graduated from Vancouver’s Northwest School of Deep Sea Diving in 1972 at age 21, Gordon Bain was eager to work with the skills he learned during the intensive six-month training. Trouble was, he couldn’t find work. “I applied at some places,...
by Canadian Sailings | Nov 19, 2017 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Other
By Mark Cardwell When it comes to inland ports in Western Canada, Calgary is in a league of its own. Located 1,000 kilometres from Vancouver and 1,500 kms from Prince Rupert, Calgary is the premier inland intermodal terminal for both British Columbian sea ports. It is...
by Canadian Sailings | Oct 15, 2017 | Business and Economy, Corporate events & profiles, Mark Cardwell, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By Mark Cardwell Louis Martel was a teenager who dreamed of designing sailboats when then-future Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Laurence Pathy bought Canada Steamships Lines with a vision to expand its operations beyond the Great Lakes into ocean shipping....
by Canadian Sailings | Oct 15, 2017 | Business and Economy, Mark Cardwell, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Mark Cardwell René Trépanier is all for conservation efforts to help protect the critically-endangered North Atlantic right whale. But he thinks those measures should also be designed with the economic wellbeing of the communities and companies that rely on the...