by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Business and Economy, Featured, Gateways and Corridors, Keith Norbury, Other
By Keith Norbury The B.C. government’s announcement in January of new project cargo corridor permits falls well short of what representatives of Port of Vancouver and the B.C. Trucking Association (BCTA) have been awaiting for several years. Both Dave Earle, BCTA...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Business and Economy, Education, Other, Supply Chain and Logistics, Top Stories
By Guy M. Tombs Growing a shipping company is helped by seeing its potential in global terms, especially because shipping is an international business. How can we go from thinking locally and small to developing a global vision? This is not a presumptuous, or even...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Business and Economy, Environment, Other, Other Stories
Launched in 2008 in the Netherlands, the Lean & Green program has a simple yet ambitious objective: to reduce CO2 emissions by a minimum of 20 per cent in a maximum of five years. To achieve this, a simple methodology has been developed. After carrying out an...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Business and Economy, Other, Other Stories, Rail
Although 2019 was another record year for both of Canada’s railways, by the fourth quarter revenues increased only marginally (CP), or declined (CN). For the fourth quarter CN’s revenues declined by 5.9 per cent, but for the year increased by 4.2 per cent to $14.9...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Business and Economy, Ocean, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
By: Wendy Zatylny As a trading nation, Canada has much to offer the world, and our seventeen Canada Port Authorities (CPAs) are a key part of this. We are already highly-competitive and efficient players in a very dynamic global trading system. But this system is...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Brian Dunn, Business and Economy, Other, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Brian Dunn Montreal The port of Montreal reached an historic milestone in 2019 by surpassing the 40 million tonnes mark. The actual figure of 40.5 million tonnes was up 4.1 per cent from 2018 and marks the sixth consecutive year total tonnage has surpassed the...
