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 | Feb 26, 2020 | Ocean, Other, Ports and Terminals, Tom Peters
By Tom Peters A major modernization project at Port Saint John continues to move forward on schedule, says Jim Quinn, President and CEO, Saint John Port Authority (SJPA). Port Saint John, along with the federal and provincial governments, entered into an agreement in...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Keith Norbury, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
By KEITH NORBURY Port of Vancouver has set a target date of 2022 to begin construction of its long-proposed multi-billion-dollar Terminal 2 on Roberts Bank with the first phase of the container terminal opening in 2028. “That is, of course subject to permitting...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Ocean, Other, Ports and Terminals
M/V Whistler was the first vessel to call the port of Trois-Rivières in 2020, docking on January 5 at 8 p.m. after a 19-day crossing of the Atlantic. With its 20 crew members from mainly the Philippines, but also from Montenegro, Croatia, Greece and Ukraine, the...
