by Canadian Sailings Admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Keith Norbury, Ports and Terminals
By Keith Norbury, The Duke Point terminal at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island passed a test of its container-handling capability in December when it unloaded damaged cargo from MV Zim Kingston. The container ship made headlines in late October when it anchored off the...
by Canadian Sailings Admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Brian Dunn, Featured, Ports and Terminals
By Brian Dunn, PORT OF MONTREAL Considering some of the challenges it faced last year, including the continuing impact of COVID-19 and a dockworkers’ strike, cargo volumes handled at the port of Montreal remained relatively stable. Preliminary results show 33.9...
by Canadian Sailings Admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Alex Binkley, Featured, Ports and Terminals
BY ALEX BINKLEY, Despite the supply chain and other pandemic-related disruptions that hit the transportation sector last year, Great Lakes ports found a lot to be positive about in the traffic they received through a challenging year. And there are strong hopes that...
by CS | Oct 25, 2021 | Brian Dunn, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Brian Dunn According to CargoM, the Logistics and Transportation Cluster of Metropolitan Montreal, last year was the worst in its eight -year history. This year may even be tougher, said CargoM Executive Director Mathieu Charbonneau. “We had a second (longshoremen)...
by CS | Oct 25, 2021 | Ports and Terminals
By Brian Dunn If there was ever a good example of baptism by fire, look no further than the Port of Montreal where Martin Imbleau became CEO in January, replacing Sylvie Vachon who retired after 30 years of service at the Port. The former head of business development...
by CS | Oct 25, 2021 | Alex Binkley, Other Stories, Ports and Terminals
By Alex Binkley There were plenty of headlines about the terrible living conditions of crews stuck on ships in ports around the world because of COVID. What was mostly missed was mention of the work of a lot of volunteers working to try to ease the situation for these...
