by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Other, Ports and Terminals
The port of Saguenay welcomed its first ocean-going vessel of the year with M/V Jaeger Arrow docking at the Marcel-Dionne wharf in Grande-Anse at 8 pm on January 1, 2020. Saguenay Port Authority, represented by its President and CEO, Carl Laberge, and the Director of...
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 | Alex Binkley, Government and Regulation, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Alex Binkley More than a year has passed since Transport Canada closed its public consultation on the future of the 17 Port Authorities across the country, but no one has any inkling of what the next step might be. The last item in the November 2019 mandate letter...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes, Tom Peters
By Tom Peters Port of Québec posted an increase in tonnage for the fourth year in a row handling approximately 28 million metric tonnes of cargo in 2019. The Port said that helping to boost that number was cargo related to the energy, steel, transportation and mining...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 26, 2020 | Business and Economy, Gateways and Corridors, Keith Norbury, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
By Keith Norbury Port of Nanaimo is all set to embark on a long-awaited $100 million expansion and upgrade of its Duke Point terminal. The port, on Vancouver Island’s east coast about 110 kilometres north of the B.C. capital of Victoria, is receiving $46.2 million...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Business and Economy, Other, Ports and Terminals, Supply Chain and Logistics
Cando Rail Services has started construction of the Cando Sturgeon Terminal in Sturgeon County, Alberta. Phase 1 of the terminal will provide additional rail capacity to Alberta’s Industrial Heartland and utilize a loop-track system to enable storage of up to 1900...
