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 | 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 | Brian Dunn, Business and Economy, Other, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Brian Dunn Montreal The port of Montreal reached an historic milestone in 2019 by surpassing the 40 million tonnes mark. The actual figure of 40.5 million tonnes was up 4.1 per cent from 2018 and marks the sixth consecutive year total tonnage has surpassed the...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
Montreal Port Authority President and CEO Sylvie Vachon awarded the famous Gold-Headed Cane to Captain Qin Xiao Fei, a Chinese national, Master of Exeborg, the first ocean-going vessel to reach the port of Montreal without a stopover in 2020. Exeborg left the Port of...
by CanadianSailings | Feb 25, 2020 | Brian Dunn, Business and Economy, Corporate events & profiles, Other, Ports and Terminals, St. Lawrence, Seaway and Great Lakes
By Brian Dunn Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership (MGT) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year as it prepares to tackle new challenges in a changing industry environment. The company has been operating since 1970 under different auspices, including Cast...
