Maritime Magazine

  As part of  the PLAINE Research Program for the Mitigation of Impacts of Commercial Navigation on Ecosystem developed by Réseau Québec maritime and led by Université de Montréal (UdeM), the port authorities of Montreal, Quebec City and Trois-Rivières have launched a project to chart a practical course of action for a totally carbon-free St. Lawrence system. The two-year […]

  Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority President and CEO Ian Hamilton has been elected chair of the Association of Canadian Port Authorities (ACPA), the national trade association of 17 Canada Port Authorities and leading national port supporters. “The coming months are important for the future efficiency and competitiveness of Canada’s supply chains, with the anticipated release of

  The 11th edition of the Festival de Loire will run from the Wednesday, September 20th to the Sunday, September 24th. Free of charge, the Festival de Loire hosts over 200 river boats, 700 bargemen, 500 artists and exhibitors on the quays of Orléans. With only a few days left before the opening, the quays

  Robert Bellisle, President and CEO of QSL, has castigated as “erroneous and frivolous” the allegations by the CUPE union representing the locked-out dockers at the Port of Quebec that the use of the replacement workers for the handling of ammonium nitrate involved security risks that could endanger the local populations.  The allegations were published

  As a two-day workshop exploring the relationship between energy efficiency and underwater radiated noise from shipping opened today at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, the Clean Arctic Alliance and the Clean Shipping Coalition called for increased international action on decarbonizing the global shipping fleet. “This IMO Workshop must identify and prioritize actions

  At a time when Lebanon is commemorating the explosion at the Beirut Port on September 11, 2020, the union representing Port of Quebec longshore workers is denouncing that this same chemical compound that caused that tragedy has been handled by replacement workers since the beginning of the lockout on September 15, 2022. When the longshore

  Vancouver- TYCROP, a leading industrial manufacturing and engineering company based in Chilliwack BC, and Loop Energy™, a leading hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer, have been selected to provide a hydrogen electric solution for the global supply chain leader DP World pilot project to decarbonize its rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) fleet at the Port of Vancouver. The design

  By Leo Ryan, Editor Trois-Rivières, QC – For the first time in its history, the Association of Canadian Port Authorities (ACPA) has awarded its annual Medal of Merit to two winners – and both from the same prominent maritime industry family! They are Madeleine Paquin, President and CEO of Montreal-based LOGISTEC Corporation, and Marc

  Algoma Central Corporation  today announced it has expanded its investment in the FureBear joint venture with two additional vessel orders, bringing the total newbuild order to ten intermediate product tankers to trade in Northern Europe with their partner Furetank AB of Sweden. The two companies continue to position FureBear to increase fleet capacity to

  WASHINGTON, DC  — Today, the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) announced a Request for Proposals (RfP) for 600,000 20-foot containers (TEUs) over a 3-year period on ocean vessels powered by zero-emission fuels. The mission of ZEMBA is to accelerate commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping, by leveraging companies’ collective buying power to accelerate the