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  Prince Rupert, BC – Prince Rupert’s Trigon Pacific Terminals Limited (Trigon) has announced a $75-million award from the federal National Trade Corridors Fund to enable a major expansion and near doubling of export capacity, and also support Trigon’s well-advanced diversification strategy. “With this federal support, we’ll be able to accelerate the construction of the second berth at our

    With a significant increase in grain shipments in October, monthly tonnage of this core commodity moving through the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway system continues to trend upwards. Just more than 1.3 million tons of Canadian grain was shipped in October, bringing the year-to-date total to more than 5.5 million tons. “The

  Ottawa—A report from Auditor General Karen Hogan tabled in the House of Commons found that the federal government has not addressed longstanding issues affecting its surveillance of Canada’s Arctic waters. As a result, the federal organizations that are responsible for safety and security in the Arctic region do not have a full picture of traffic

  The new Viking Neptune was delivered to Swiss based Viking on November 10 from Fincantieri’s shipyard in Ancona, Italy, with a fuel cell installation aboard. Viking Neptune, ninth of this class, marks a quantum leap in the longstanding cooperation between Viking and Fincantieri for designing, delivering and operating environmentally considerate cruise vessels. The two

  Trois-Rivières – As part of its 140thanniversary celebrations, the Port of Trois-Rivières announced that more than 140 trees and shrubs were planted throughout the year. The Port carried out these plantings on three of its properties, which border residential sectors and a commercial artery, as part of its continuing efforts to optimize its integration into

  PORT HAWKESBURY, NS – On November 10, Mike Kelloway, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Member of Parliament for Cape Breton–Canso, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, announced an investment of nearly $1.8 million in Net Zero Atlantic to lay the

  GCT Canada has ordered 10 Konecranes RTGs (rubber-tired gantry cranes) for its GCT Deltaport container terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The terminal currently operates a fleet of 12 Konecranes RTGs. The new cranes will be delivered in Q1 2024. “When the new RTGs are working, we’ll have a high-performing fleet of 22 Konecranes

  St. Catharines, ON –  Algoma Central Corporation  today announced that it has doubled its investment in the FureBear joint venture, and will construct four additional dual-fuel ice class 1A 17,999 DWT climate-friendly product tankers with their partner Furetank AB  of Sweden, bringing the total investment to eight vessels. Algoma owns 50% of the joint