* Maher Terminals, $60 million, including the three super-post panamax cranes
* Government of Canada: Western Economic Diversification Canada, $30 million
* Province of British Columbia, $30 million
* CN Rail, $25 million towards the terminal's rail-related infrastructure
* Prince Rupert Port Authority, $25 million
“Fifty years ago, Canada opened up Atlantic trade to North America with investments in the St Lawrence Seaway. Today, we are beginning to see investments and even greater opportunity as we open up trade corridors linking the growing Asian economies with North America through Canada’s Pacific Gateway,” says British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell. “The Port of Prince Rupert is the closest port to the fastest growing economies in the world. This single expansion will create thousands of jobs in this region alone, and shift the focus of North American economies to the Pacific. I want to thank all the partners involved in this project for showing tremendous leadership and vision for our province and all of Canada.”
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“This new terminal represents yet another step in building a world–class transportation system connecting North America to Asia,” says the Honourable David Emerson, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics. “It will open extraordinary opportunities for Canadian business at home and abroad.”
"The Prince Rupert Port expansion will change the economic landscape of this region and our nation as we build stronger trade connections between Canada and Asia," says the Honourable Rona Ambrose, President of the Queen’s Privy Council, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Western Economic Diversification. “Canada’s New Government is a proud partner and financial supporter of this project.”
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President Hunter Harrison of CN, which owns and operates the northern mainline from Prince Rupert to Winnipeg, says CN appreciated the unique opportunity to work with the Port of Prince Rupert and Maher Terminals to design and construct the terminal from the ground up.
“We strongly believed in the Port of Prince Rupert’s vision from the outset and, as a result of our partnership and involvement in the terminal planning process, CN’s congestion-free mainline is integrated seamlessly into an ultra-modern, high-capacity container facility. This new injection of meaningful port-rail-terminal capacity into the global supply chain will offer shippers the fastest, most efficient and most cost-effective routing for Asian traffic destined to and from the interior of North America.”
CN is also investing heavily in its western Canadian network, which will benefit the entire Pacific gateway, adds Mr. Harrison. These improvements include upgrades to its rail traffic control system west of Prince George and extended sidings that will result in a double track system from Prince Rupert to Memphis with the capacity to handle the four million TEUs that the Port of Prince Rupert is projecting to handle by 2015. CN has upgraded tunnel and bridge, built new intermodal terminals in Prince George and Edmonton and acquired 50 new state-of-the-art locomotives specifically to serve Prince Rupert.
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Strategically situated on the direct great circle route from Asia, Prince Rupert is more than a day’s sailing time closer to Asia than Vancouver and Seattle and nearly three days closer than LA/Long Beach. The Port of Prince Rupert has the deepest natural harbour in North America and the safest West Coast harbour with extensive capacity to expand. Prince Rupert is connected to the fastest and most effective rail line across the Rockies, which also has significant capacity available to accommodate Prince Rupert’s growth. The Port is anchoring a high-speed ‘Express Gateway’ that will result in containers shipped from Asia arriving at their North American mid west destinations faster than through other North American ports. The Port is building upon Prince Rupert’s strategic advantages to achieve container capacity of at least 4 million TEUs by 2015, which is aligned with Asia-Pacific Gateway & Corridor Initiative targets. New cruise ship facilities and a maturing cruise ship operation are also opening new opportunities to develop and grow Prince Rupert into a premier cruise port on the west coast of North America.
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<a href="http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/PacificGateway/documents/PGS_Action_Plan_043006.pdf">http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/PacificGateway/documents/PGS_Action_Plan_043006.pdf</a><br />
It's pretty dense but very interesting. It's good to see the governments & industry planning for the future.<p>---<br>"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
There is much talk of improvements:<br />
<a href="http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/newsstories/energycorridor">http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/newsstories/energycorridor</a><br />
<a href="http://bcndpcaucus.ca/en/province_must_upgrade_cranberry_connector_ndp">http://bcndpcaucus.ca/en/province_must_upgrade_cranberry_connector_ndp</a><br />
But the port is open NOW, and the "improvments" are all on paper. So what is the port going to do until it can be fed?<br />
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Edmonton stands to become a major transportation hub because of the Prince Rupert port. We are looking not only to be a distribution point for major incoming Asian goods, we will also be able to ship thing to Asia cheaper and faster than can be done from Europe.
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
PS- Rupert is the low German form of Robert, which means "bright fame" lol
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
But what I am curious about is whether this BC government is actually willing to commit funds for transportation upgrades to get the goods to and from Rupert. That would constitute spending in the hinterland, and the Libs have done precious little by way of spending outside of the lower mainland, going (as is their wont) after the vote for the 2009 election. Why, they've even arranged to have extra ridings put in..........
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Maybe BC M has some info on her BLOG
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<a href="http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/PacificGateway/documents/PGS_Action_Plan_043006.pdf">http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/PacificGateway/documents/PGS_Action_Plan_043006.pdf</a><br />
It's got all the details about what has to be done, how much it will cost, when construction is supposed to begin, and who will pay for it. The only thing that seems to be missing is upgrades to hwy 16 between Prince George & Prince Rupert. <br />
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re: BC Rail sale I have no idea if there's any connection with this new Prince Rupert port.<p>---<br>"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
Hmmmmm?<br />
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