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Melford International Terminal (MIT), a privately-owned Nova Scotia company, is developing a 315-acre container terminal, an intermodal on-dock rail facility and a 1,500-acre logistics park on the mainland side of the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia. This terminal will, in many ways, be an “East Coast version of Prince Rupert.” When phase 1 of the project [...] A straddle carrier handing containers at the Port of Tacoma's North Intermodal yard and Husky Terminal. Photo by Port of Tacoma. A comprehensive look at Washington’s ports as an engine for economic development is the subject of a legislative study committee when it meets in Tacoma on July 9. The Legislative Committee on Economic Development and [...] The challenges facing the ports of Seattle and Tacoma can be neatly listed: 1) The trade collapse from the Great Recession; 2) The looming opening of wider Panama and Suez canals, allowing much Asian cargo to bypass the West Coast; 3) Prince Rupert, a day’s sailing distance closer to Asia, and 4) Washington’s slowness to [...] Since the Panama Canal Authority announced plans in 2006 for a third set of locks that can handle ships twice as big as the current locks, the industry has been girding for the potential shift of trans-Pacific shipments to the U.S. East Coast. East Coast ports have spent billions of dollars to dredge channels deep [...] “Overall west coast container traffic declined by 15 per cent. Fairview Terminal is the only container port on the west coast that has shown growth in 2009,” said Prince Rupert Port Authority’s President and CEO. “We’re the only blooming flower in an otherwise wilting garden, so that has drawn a lot of attention to Prince [...] The mayor of Prince Rupert, British Columbia recently gave the local Rotary Club an update on the potential of a third ship calling on the container terminal in the near future. “I am confident that in three to six months we will have a third shipping line using that facility, which would increase traffic through Prince [...] Two loaded freight trains prepare to leave Long Beach. Read the full article in the LA Times by clicking on the photo. About 40 percent of all goods that the U.S. receives in containers from overseas enter the country through the seaports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That freight must then move overland to [...] The LA Times reports on competition from domestic and foreign ports. Click on the image to read the full LA Times' article. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are aggressively advertising and giving customers discounts at a time when they and most other U.S. ports are wrapping up their worst ever year-over-year decline [...] Site of possible port development near Prince Rupert, B.C. The Lax Kw’alaams band has emerged as one of six bidders for the former Skeena Cellulose pulp mill site on Watson Island. The band and a minority partner want to convert the site of approximately 104 hectares into a diverse collection of uses aimed at promoting and supporting [...] CN Rail and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference announced that they had reached an agreement to end a strike by the rail engineers after just four days of job action by the union. Engineers went on strike after negotiations, which have been taking place for more than a year, broke off on November 27. … [...] The strike at Canada’s biggest railway has not resulted in any delayed grain shipments or canceled contracts with buyers, the head of the Canadian Wheat Board said on Wednesday. The CWB had some grain in the Pacific Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, prior to the strike by 1,700 Canadian National Railway [...] The Prince Rupert Port Authority (Canada) will be receiving $3 million worth of federal funding under the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund to help pay for much needed repairs and upgrades. Atlin Terminal will be receiving $1 million to go towards the estimated $2 million in repairs and seismic upgrades to its pilings and retaining wall. Built [...] Stung by the overall downturn in trade, the growing diversion of cargo through Canada and the looming expansion of the Panama Canal, port authorities have teamed with Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads – the two carriers with a virtual monopoly on access to West Coast ports – to create a united front [...] A turf war is brewing between West Coast ports and Canadian ports vying for the heartland of America. The Canadian government has launched an aggressive $7 million marketing campaign aimed at diverting Asian imports from the West Coast to ports in Vancouver and Prince Rupert. …The heads of the West Coast’s six largest ports are [...] The Great Recession has only strengthened China’s position as an exporting powerhouse and its economy may be stabilizing, if not recovering, faster than elsewhere. But will Puget Sound ports be well positioned in the big reset? … New competition from Prince Rupert, B.C., a widened Panama Canal and improvements to the Suez Canal will seriously [...] |
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