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Following last month’s trade deal between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the United States today officially suspended port fees targeting China’s maritime dominance for one year. Tit-for-tat fees on each other’s vessels had been in force for less than a month. While maritime industry interests largely welcomed the pause, labor unions strongly criticized […]

The Trois-Rivières Port Authority (TRPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Anick Métivier as President and Chief Executive Officer. With over 30 years of experience in the port industry, Mr. Métivier will draw on his expertise, his deep understanding of the sector, and his experience with the Trois-Rivières Port Authority to continue, alongside

With tariff uncertainty continuing but most holiday merchandise already in stores or warehouses, import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports should see its usual end-of-year slowdown in November and December, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “We’ve spent most of the year worried about

Le Groupe ALMACO, part of the ALMACO Group, has officially inaugurated its head office in Quebec City, marking a long-term commitment to Canada’s shipbuilding sector under the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). The new office strengthens ALMACO Group’s international collaboration with Davie Shipbuilding (Davie) and coincides with work on the Canadian Coast Guard’s flagship Polar Max

AAL Shipping (AAL) has successfully transported three heavy lift LNG plant modules from Hai Phong, Vietnam, to the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, showcasing AAL’s service for large-scale energy infrastructure projects around the world. It also marks the carrier’s most recent sailing on the Pacific trade – a route it is eyeing for

The Port of Nanaimo has announced the arrival of the first shipment of Isuzu Commercial Truck of Canada (ICTC) vehicles to the BC Vehicle Processing Centre (BCVPC), marking another milestone in the Port’s growing role as a key gateway for Canadian automotive imports. The shipment arrived this week at the BC Vehicle Processing Centre Nanaimo,

The World Shipping Council (WSC) has released the third edition of the WSC Whale Chart, a global voyage planning aid that maps where slower ship speeds and route changes can help protect whales from ship strikes and reduce underwater noise. The WSC Whale Chart brings together all known mandatory and voluntary ship-strike and underwater noise reduction

By Leo Ryan. Editor The trade infrastructure strategy component of the federal budget submitted to Parliament by the Carney government contains several items that address certain urgent wishes expressed by maritime industry stakeholders in the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway. In this connection, the budget document notes: “As part of additional resources for Canada Border Services

On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Assises de l’Économie de la Mer, Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, announced the entry into the fleet and registration under the French flag (French International Register – RIF) of ten Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) dual-fuel vessels, each with a

Estimated transborder freight between the U.S., Canada and Mexico by all modes in August 2025 totalled $133.4 billion, representing a 2.5% decline from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics TransBorder Freight Data of the US Department of Transportation.  The statistics in this release do not reflect changes in inflation or tonnage