by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Corporate events & profiles, Keith Norbury, Other, Other Stories, Ports and Terminals
By Keith Norbury The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with months of protests over racial injustice sparked by the death of a Black man, George Floyd, after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled his neck for over eight minutes this spring. In recognition of that,...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Business and Economy, Gateways and Corridors, Keith Norbury, Other, Ports and Terminals, Top Stories
By Keith Norbury By the middle of 2021 a new road will increase efficiency at the Porty of Prince Rupert by cutting the driving distance by three-quarters. Construction on the $115 million Fairview-Ridley Connector Corridor project — which will link the Fairview...
by CanadianSailings | Dec 8, 2020 | Gateways and Corridors, Other, Other Stories, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Supply Chain and Logistics
In an otherwise dreary landscape of significantly lower volumes passing through the St. Lawrence Seaway, Canadian grain shipments topped 6.2 million tonnes at the end of September, maintaining its 20 per cent increase over the 2019 season. Overall Seaway cargo...
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...
