by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By MARK CARDWELL For many places and industries, the unfortunate impacts of Covid-19 have made this a year to forget. But for the Port of Sept-Îles and its mining partners on Quebec’s rugged North Shore, strong demand for steel, bullish prices for iron ore and an...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Environment, Mark Cardwell, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
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 | Featured, 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, Featured, 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 | Dec 8, 2020 | Alex Binkley, Featured, Other, Safety and Security, Trucking
By Alex Binkley The full adoption of electronic logging devices (ELDs) for all commercial trucks and buses moved a big step forward in late October when Transport Minister Marc Garneau designated a third-party certification process to begin testing...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Business and Economy, Keith Norbury, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By Keith Norbury Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which has upended the world economy this year, the Port of Prince Rupert is on track for another record year in 2020. As of the end September, total foreign cargo volumes were up 1.8 per cent, to 22.75 million tonnes...
