by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Top Stories
By Alex Binkley The delay in opening the St. Lawrence Seaway system this spring because of high water levels in the Great Lakes has generated understandable frustration among shipping lines and their customers. It also presents an opportunity for the waterway to test...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Featured, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Alex Binkley While it doesn’t yet attract the attention that ocean tours on massive floating hotels do, cruising on the Great Lakes has been gaining popularity during the last two decades, and could become even more fashionable during the next few years as other...
by CanadianSailings | Mar 29, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Corporate events & profiles, Gateways and Corridors, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By Alex Binkley The ports of Thunder Bay and Valleyfield could be seen as the proverbial bookends of the Seaway-Great Lakes system, and they are both beefing up their facilities for handling breakbulk and project cargoes. Other ports on the Great Lakes, including...
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, 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 | Bruce Striegler, Environment, Featured, Ocean, Ocean Carriers, Other
By R. Bruce Striegler Around the world, owners of fleets of container ships, tankers, dry bulk carriers and ferries have been coping with the uncertainties surrounding the introduction of the International Maritime Organization’s new low-sulphur fuel regulations (IMO...
