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Opening of British Columbia’s first majority Indigenous-owned port

STEWART, British Columbia – The Nisg̱a’a and Tahltan Nations, together with Arrow Transportation Systems Inc. celebrated the official opening on September 9 of the Portland Canal Marine Terminal — British Columbia’s first majority Indigenous-owned port, marking an important milestone in Indigenous-led infrastructure ownership, transportation and economic development. The terminal is owned through Portland Canal Holdings […]

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1,000 tonnes of coffee delivered to the Port of Montreal aboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship

On Friday, August 28, the Port of Montreal welcomed a visitor unlike any other: the Neoliner Origin, the world’s largest sailing cargo ship currently in operation. On board were 1,000 tonnes of organic green coffee from Latin America. Behind this operation is Café William, a Sherbrooke-based company with a clear ambition: to combine its passion for

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Import cargo’s peak season not over yet at US container ports

This year’s extended peak season is continuing, with a final bump expected this month that could push September just over the line to be the busiest month of the year for import volume at the major US container ports, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “We

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Arctic Report Card cut by Trump Administration finds critical support from AGU

WASHINGTON — The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed assessment of the state of the warming Arctic, will continue under its independent editorial team —  led by researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Alaska Fairbanks —  with new support from the American Geophysical Union. The partnership ensures the report’s

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Asian port congestion drives sharp reliability drop in global container vessel schedules

Sea-Intelligence reports that global container vessel schedule reliability dropped to 56.4% in July 2026, a decline of 6.1 percentage points (pp) M/M. “This is the sharpest single month decline since January 2021,” said CEO Alan Murphy. Concurrently, the average delay for late vessel arrivals climbed to 6.06 days, an increase of 0.59 days M/M. This

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Canadian government invests $405 million to advance the Mackenzie Valley Highway Project and strengthen Arctic connectivity

Norman Wells, Northwest Territories – Today, the Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, and the Honourable Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, announced federal funding of $405 million through the Arctic Infrastructure Fund (AIF) to advance the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway (MVH) Project in the

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IMO meeting wraps up without consensus on Net-Zero framework

States again failed to agree on a deal following pressure from a small minority of fossil-fuel producing nations and division among progressive states, reported the Brussels-based Transport and Environment (T&E) activist group. Negotiations at the IMO, which wrapped up in London today, have drawn a blank for the third meeting in a row, as US

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Polar Class 3 icebreaker MSV Nordica arrives in Canada from Finland

ST. JOHN’S, NL — Qikiqtaaluk Horizon Arctic Services (QHAS) today welcomed the Polar Class 3 icebreaker, MSV Nordica, to Canada, marking a significant milestone in efforts to increase the Canadian Coast Guard’s operational capacity and strengthen Canada’s presence and readiness in the Arctic. The vessel’s arrival brings an operational asset into Canadian waters under a

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‘Pink Corridor’ project to explore nuclear-powered transatlantic container shipping

Lloyd’s Register (LR), A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), the Port of Charleston on the US east coast and the Port of Felixstowe, the largest container port in the UK, have announced a partnership to establish a Pink Corridor project, to identify and address the operational, security and safeguarding requirements for a theoretical nuclear-powered containership trading between the two ports. The

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CPKC begins new Canadian crop year with August monthly grain record

Canadian Pacific Kansas City said today it has set a new August monthly record for transporting Canadian grain and grain products, moving 2.54 million metric tonnes (MMT) and 26,051 carloads in August 2026, marking a strong start to the new crop year. The new August achievement beat the previous tonnage and carload records set in

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