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November 20, 2017 • Canadian Sailings • 5 A new dawn for Port of Sept-Îles BY MARK CARDWELL Pierre Gagnon is no stranger to the cility over the past year, have Gagnon better steel products with better ef - business of mining iron ore. A mining feeling bullish about the prospects of ficiencies and less of an environ - engineer by trade, he worked several the Port of Sept-Îles in the not-too- mental footprint. years for Quebec Cartier Mining (now distant future. part of ArcelorMittal) in the town of “China buys 60 per cent of all min - Since the 1950s, when iron ore Fermont before joining Port of Sept- erals in the world,” says Gagnon. started being mined from the Îles as President and Chief Executive “But they have recently brought in Labrador Trough and shipped south Officer in 2002. Since then, Gagnon policies to reduce greenhouse gas to Sept-Îles via the Quebec North has been working to help the Port’s emissions in their steel production Shore and Labrador Railway from first major clients deal with the challenges industry.” Those policies, he adds, Shefferville, then the Wabush and of reaching global markets with the are driving up both demand and Labrador City, NL areas, the mineral 80 billion tonnes of high quality iron premiums for top-quality iron ore has been both the backbone and the like the kind that ships through his ore reserve known to exist in the lifeblood of the community on Que - Labrador Trough. port. Premiums have more than bec’s North Shore. doubled in recent years from be - “It is one of the purest iron ore Iron ore comprises more than 90 per - tween $5 and $6 USD a ton to be - sources in the world with the fewest cent of the roughly 25 million tonnes tween $12 and $15 USD a ton. That contaminants,” Gagnon says about of cargo that are shipped from the is on top of the current world price the ferrous deposits in the trough, a port each year. Though Sept-Îles is a of roughly $60 USD a ton for iron 160-kilometre-wide, sausage-shaped small player on the world stage, ac - ore, which has been quite volatile landform that starts 400 km north of counting for only 2-3 percent of world since the beginning of the year with Sept-Îles and stretches 1,200 km supply, Gagnon says that many steel- a high of $89 USD in March, com - north to Ungava Bay. “It is highly making facilities, notably in China, are pared to a low of $38 USD in late prized for its qualities, which adds a blending high-quality iron ore with 2015. Though double what it was premium value and increased price.” the lower-quality material supplied by when Gagnon joined the Port, the Quality, together with several critical world-leading producers like Australia current world price for iron ore is infrastructure developments at his fa - and Brazil. Blending helps to produce still only a third of the record $193 6 • Canadian Sailings • November 20, 2017 USD a ton it reached briefly in 2008. backed Société ferroviaire et portu - aire de Pointe-Noire (SFPPN). The lat - While he has no control over the sup - ter is a limited partnership that was ply-and-demand driven world price created to own and operate assets for iron ore, Gagnon is feeling confi - purchased from Cliff’s Natural Re - dent about the Port’s ability to both sources operating under protection maintain and enhance its role as the from its creditors. These assets in - main gateway to the global market clude rail lines, access to port facili - for Canadian iron ore producers. In ties, rail yards, a pellet plant, addition to the growing popularity administrative offices and about 1200 and environmental advantages of hectares of land. The Port itself was blending, which he says is providing successful with the acquisition of 400 “a nice bump” in revenues for the hectares of land to unlock the future Port’s current iron ore producers, growth of the sector. Gagnon says several recent and im - minent developments have set the For years, Cliff’s refusal to negotiate stage for a major upswing in the service on its rail network giving ac - Port’s fortunes in the immediate and cess to the port stymied develop - near future.