by Canadian Sailings Admin | Oct 2, 2022 | Featured, Theo van de Kletersteeg
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is about to become a “big thing” for Canada’s West Coast, and, perhaps later, for Canada’s East Coast, with one B.C. export terminal being readied for operation in 2025. A new industry will soon be born in Canada. The question is: will more...
by Canadian Sailings Admin | Oct 2, 2022 | Featured, Theo van de Kletersteeg
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s Chancellor, came to Canada recently, looking for supplies of natural gas. He left empty-handed, although a soft promise of expensive “green” ammonia was made, possibly available as early as 2025. While much of the blame for lack of Canadian...
by Canadian Sailings Admin | Mar 30, 2022 | Ports and Terminals, Theo van de Kletersteeg
By Theo van de Kletersteeg Canadian Sailings has recently completed another annual study comparing financial and other performance data related to federally- operated Canadian Port Authorities from 2019 to 2020 (Data for 2021 will not be available until July or...
by Canadian Sailings Admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Business and Economy, Theo van de Kletersteeg
By Theo van de Kletersteeg, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organization of 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. Notably, and regrettably, China is not a...
by Canadian Sailings | Sep 6, 2021 | Environment, Opinion, Theo van de Kletersteeg
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, released its most recent report (AR6) in August. The report does not make for pleasant reading, as even IPCC’s most ambitious model of...
by Canadian Sailings | Sep 6, 2021 | Business and Economy, Environment, Other, Theo van de Kletersteeg
By Theo van de Kletersteeg The other day I received an email which contained the following pesky message at the end “Thank you for considering the environment before printing this message.” The email was sent to me by a well-meaning person who was obviously completely...
