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Rail now moving fluidly through Vancouver, CN says

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News January 25, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — Congestion at Port Metro Vancouver, Canada’s busiest port, has been resolved and rail operations are now “fluid,” Canadian National Railway said Friday. Canadian National and rival Canadian Pacific Railway were rationing space on trains travelling in the Vancouver area and prioritized some commodities over others to deal with congestion, causing complaints […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Railways ration space as commodity congestion problems worsen

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News January 21, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s two major railways are rationing space on trains traveling to the country’s biggest port and recently prioritized some commodities over others to deal with congestion, the latest indication of their struggle to meet demand from new trade deals. That move prompted Canada’s transport regulator last week to start an investigation […] Read more

Fibreco’s terminal at Port Metro Vancouver. (Fibreco.com)

Crops, Pulses

Vancouver port space secured for pulse processor AGT

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 18, 2017

In need of ready access to West Coast tidewater, Prairie pulse crop processor AGT Food and Ingredients is set to work with the B.C. forestry sector to get it. Regina-based, publicly-traded AGT announced Monday it has reached a long-term terminal services agreement with Fibreco Export Inc., a wood fibre and canola meal exporter majority-owned by […] Read more

A rendering of G3’s proposed grain terminal and loop track for Port Metro Vancouver. (G3.ca)

Crops, Reuters

G3 to proceed with port grain terminal at Vancouver

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News December 21, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s G3 Global Holdings will build a grain terminal at Port Metro Vancouver by 2020, increasing the flow of wheat and canola to Asia and Latin America, the company said on Wednesday. The Winnipeg-based partnership of Saudi Arabian agriculture company SALIC and U.S. grain handler Bunge Ltd/ had been considering the […] Read more

Western Stevedoring’s Lynnterm Terminal, shown here, is now the subject of a feasibility study as the possible site of a new export terminal for Prairie grain. (Colin Jewell photo courtesy Port Metro Vancouver)

Crops, Markets

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 2, 2015

The new Prairie grain player tapped to take a majority stake in the former Canadian Wheat Board is now considering the possibility of its own port terminal. Bunge Canada and Saudi-owned crown corporation SALIC Canada, in their joint venture G3 Global Holdings, have agreed to a separate joint venture with West Coast port logistics firm […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Vancouver port resumes most operations after container fire

By GFM Network News March 5, 2015

Vancouver | Reuters — Port Metro Vancouver said Thursday that operations had resumed at most port facilities shut down by a shipping container fire the day before, but that its Centerm container terminal was still closed. The chemical fire, which prompted a massive emergency response late on Wednesday and shut down a large portion of […] Read more

Quorum’s latest report says that during the first nine months of the 2013-14 crop year, vessels waited an average of 19.1 days in port at Vancouver.

Crops, News

Vessels kept waiting at port

Port Metro Vancouver is on track to break movement records, despite supply chain problems

By Lisa Guenther March 2, 2015

Mark Hemmes is cautiously optimistic about grain transportation this year, he told CropSphere delegates in Saskatoon in January. The transportation system has set records for grain volumes moved, he said, and generally things are back in balance. But vessel line-ups at port are still a concern, he said, especially in Vancouver. “They’re running out of anchorage […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Potatoes, Reuters

Canada’s West Coast ports offer little relief from U.S. delays

By GFM Network News December 16, 2014

Vancouver | Reuters — Gridlock at U.S. West Coast ports that has forced McDonald’s to ration French fries at its Japanese restaurants and interrupted supplies to retailers such as Lululemon is unlikely to be alleviated by routing cargoes through Canada, whose Pacific ports face their own problems. Capacity is already limited at Canada’s largest port, […] Read more

GFM Network News

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Alberta Crop Report: Harvest reaches completion

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on yield uncertainty, firming cash markets

Tag Archives Port Metro Vancouver

Rail now moving fluidly through Vancouver, CN says

Railways ration space as commodity congestion problems worsen

Vancouver port space secured for pulse processor AGT

G3 to proceed with port grain terminal at Vancouver

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

Vancouver port resumes most operations after container fire

Vessels kept waiting at port

Canada’s West Coast ports offer little relief from U.S. delays

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