Maritime Magazine

  LOGISTEC Corporation, a leading marine and environmental services provider, has received the 2024 Canada’s Best Managed Companies award, now for the second year. This award recognizes LOGISTEC’s outstanding business performance, continuous sustained growth, bold strategy, and culture of innovation. “We are very honored to be named a Best Managed Company for the second year,” said Sean Pierce, […]

  Unifor members working for CN Transportation Ltd. (CNTL) have ratified a new four-year agreement, it was announced today. Unifor represents 786 independent owner-operator truck drivers who haul cargo for CN’s Intermodal business, including local, regional and long-haul delivery across Canada. CNTL is a subsidiary company of Canadian National Railway.  The owner-operators are members of Unifor Council

  The BC Maritime Employers Association has filed a complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board as a result of the alleged “intransigence” of the union representing ship and dock foremen towards an offer that included “a generous monetary proposal.” The initiative was announced late last Friday. The BCMEA and the International Longshore and Warehouse

  Dartmouth, NS – Darren Fisher, Member of Parliament for Dartmouth Cole Harbour, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, joined by Assistant Deputy Minister for Defence Research and Development Canada, Dr. Jaspinder Komal, today officially opened the Facility for Intelligent Marine Systems (FIMS). Renovations to

  Crews working under the Unified Command are preparing to use small explosives to remove on Saturday evening the portion of the collapsed bridge that is laying across the bow of the Dali containership, known as span four. Precision cuts made with small, strategically-placed charges offers the “safest and swiftest method” to remove the bridge piece

  Montreal – LOGISTEC Corporation has announced the appointment of Susan Bray to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. An executive director and management board member, Ms. Bray will bring her strategic mindset and in-depth logistics knowledge and international supply chain expertise to the Board, which oversees LOGISTEC’s marine and environmental services offered throughout North America. “We are

  The Port of Quebec today unveiled its new Environmental, Social, Governance and Sustainable Development (ESGDD) 2024-2028 action plan, which is structured around its Vision 2035 blueprint and which provides for the implementation of 20 specific actions for a more sustainable world. Decarbonization being one of the priority axes of the plan, the Port aims

  In 2023, 2.3 million TEU of container ship capacity was delivered, beating the former all-time high by 37%, according to BIMCO. Year-to-date another record has been set as more than 1 million TEU has already been delivered during the first four months of the year, an increase of nearly 80% compared to the previous

  A Kingston cruise boat operator has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to personally intervene in a botched bridge repair job that has paralyzed commercial marine traffic in the eastern Ontario city’s harbour. “I ask you to take immediate action to ensure government is part of the solution instead of the problem,” St. Lawrence

  Leo Ryan, Editor Marine industry veteran Sean Pierce, CEO of Logistec Corporation since the closing of its acquisition in January by NY-based  Blue Wolf Capital Partners for approximately C$1.2 billion, has unveiled an ambitious roadmap for the Montreal-based marine and environmental services company – potentially significantly expanding its footprint within and beyond existing markets