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Project Cargo www.canadiansailings.ca November 6 , 2017 PROJECT CARGO FEATURE ALSO: 1 2 5 7 6 9 1 4 . o N OF PORT t n e m e e r g A l PRINCE RUPERT i a M s n o i t a c feature i l b u P Flatrack? Why would you consider shipping your high valued, out-of-gauge cargo on a atrack, FLATwhen there’s a WRONG! 100% underdeck alternative? Make The Right Choice For Your Cargo’s Safety! 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PUBLICATION DATE NO PUBLICATION Home of Canadian Sailings, TransOctoberporOctobertation & Trade Logistics NovemberNovember 2017 DecemberDecember Canadian Sailings is a registered trade name of Great White Publications Inc. Revised October 20, 2017 October November December printed by PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 41967521 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO GREAT WHITE PUBLICATIONS INC., 1390 CHEMIN SAINT-ANDRÉ RIVIÈRE BEAUDETTE, QC H9S 5J9 email: [email protected] PUBLICATION DATE NO PUBLICATION Revised October 2017 4 • Canadian Sa ilings • No v em ber 6, 2017 20172017 PUBLICATIONPUBLICATION DATE DATE NONO PUBLICATION PUBLICATION Revised November 10, 2016 Revised October 20, 2017 Revised November 10, 2016 CONTENTS November 6, 2017 PROJECT CARGO 7 Calgary: Canada’s premier inland port 17 Flooded Houston port recovers quickly 11 Heavy haulers differ on whether Alberta bust is 19 Modular hotel units provide new project business over for Thunder Bay 15 Proposed fabrication facility would boost fortunes 21 Atlantic Container Line celebrating 50 years for Newfoundland port on the high seas 31 Ray-Mont Logistics opens agri-business transload facility in Prince Rupert 25 Port of Prince Rupert celebrates completion of Phase 32 Wolverine investigates marine fuelling service Two Fairview Terminal expansion for Port of Prince Rupert 29 With forest product transload facilities, Port of Prince 33 Port environmental activities include a wide array Rupert a critical element of the supply chain of protection and prevention programs 36 Louis Martel at helm of CSL Group 37 North American railroads enjoy strong third quarter, despite Hurricane Harvey 37 CSX chief Harrison says railroad now on the right track after strong Q3 38 CN and CP announce third quarter results 39 CN and Norfolk Southern joint interline service reducing transcontinental transit times by up to 48 hours 40 Profile: Groupe Océan’s Gordon Bain 42 New Brunswick awards ferry contract to Groupe Océan 42 Davie pushing Ottawa on icebreakers 44 OPINION: Carbon math explained! Is Canada making a serious effort to meet its obligations? 46 Doing more with less: Intensity of U.S. energy use in manufacturing continues its decline 46 Windsor Port Authority honoured by AAPA 47 Ocean carriers increasingly targeting better-paying reefer containers COVER 47 ‘Active’ controlled atmosphere brings fresh technology to the reefer 49 No box trade supply-demand balance until end 2019, says Alphaliner 50 Relief for carriers as decline in east-west container rates finally bottoms out 51 Hapag-Lloyd fleet ‘now complete’ as latest UASC newbuild ULCV is delivered 51 Time is money: report shows carrier reliability leads to higher profits 52 Don’t believe the hype - there is a long way to go before digitization revolutionizes container shipping, says Alphaliner 53 China crackdown on quality of waste imports a blow to recycling sector 54 More automotive shippers board expanding K+N Asia-Europe rail services REGULAR FEATURES Spliethoff’s Deltagracht , in the North Sea transporting windmill blades. 55 Upcoming Industry Events 55 Index of Advertisers The contents of this publication are protected by copyright laws and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without the written permission of the publisher. November 6 , 2017 • Canadian Sailings • 5 6 • Canadian Sailings • November 6, 2017 PROJECT CARGO Calgary: Canada’s premier inland port BY MARK CARDWELL When it comes to inland ports in “With containers, you’re going to Western Canada, Calgary is in a truck them inland because it’s too league of its own. costly to cross-dock and have facili - Located 1,000 kilometres from ties in a place like Vancouver,” said Vancouver and 1,500 kms from Dunlop. “Sure, you can do last-mile Prince Rupert, Calgary is the premier there. But it’s a lot cheaper to destuff inland intermodal terminal for both containers and shipments here in British Columbian sea ports. It is also Calgary. We are and have been for Canada’s primary hub for big-box re - some time the lowest cost location tail and consumer packaged goods across Western Canada to set up a west of Toronto. distribution centre.” In addition to the lowest effective tax rates and “Calgary’s big advantages are proximity to regional markets and highest affordability and livability competitive costs,” says Patti Dun - rates among North America’s major lop, Business Development man - port cities – whether coastal or in - ager, Transportation and Logistics for land – Dunlop said Calgary also has Calgary Economic Development, a geography on its side. Calgary is at the crossroads of several highways – non-profit group that works with TONY BIANCO businesses and governments to bet - notably the Trans-Canada - that go ter position Calgary as a location of in all four cardinal directions. Many choice for investment and trade. of those corridors have been re - vamped of late. And Calgary’s airport recently un - According to Dunlop, Calgary has derwent a billion-dollar makeover the lowest cost of operations com - Both of Canada’s two national that enhanced the movement of pared to regional logistics hub com - Class 1 railways also run lines into people and products. petitors like Regina, Spokane, the city and have built state-of-the- “There is more and more activity Vancouver and Seattle/Tacoma. It is art intermodal terminals there that in the supply chain and logistics in - are connected to their respective also the most competitive location in dustry here,” Dunlop said during a country- and continent-wide net - Western Canada for all-in distribu - recent media trip designed to pro - tion costs. works. mote Calgary’s preeminence as the leading transportation and logistics hub in Western Canada. “Things Air Canada Cargo's are really starting to take off.” Rob Flood Tony Bianco agrees. “Calgary is a unique and robust market,” said Bianco, Canadian National’s Director, Intermodal sales (domestic). In 2013, CN moved its Calgary operations from its decades-old serv - ing yard in the Sarcee industrial area in the city’s south-end to a $300-mil - lion logistics park in the village of Conrich, 3 kms east of Calgary’s northeast corner. Equipped with four automated in- gates and three out-gates that keep in-terminal truck turnaround times to under an hour, the 1,000-acre inter - modal facility also features six mobile cranes, 6,600 feet of working pad tracking, a container yard for interna - tional container storage, specialized November 6 , 2017 • Canadian Sailings • 7 PROJECT CARGO It’s not only the railways that have improved their services in Calgary. Several sections of the Stoney and Deerfoot Trails, which make up the heart of Calgary’s 70-mile-long ring road system, have recently been im - proved and/or completed. The sys - tem connects Alberta’s Highway 2, which runs north to the provincial capital of Edmonton, with Calgary’s international airport in the city’s north end and the TransCanada Highway in the south. In August, a $78-million section of the road that features the first diver - gent-diamond design interchange in Canada opened to traffic.
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