Port of Prince Rupert

Canada’s largest railroads see mixed progress at the country’s busiest container gateway.

Port fees on Chinese ships are aimed at boosting U.S. shipbuilding but could have follow-on effects for intermodal traffic, too.

Canada Labor Secretary Steven MacKinnon asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order operations to resume at the ports of Montreal, Vancouver and Prince Rupert and send employers and longshore unions back to the bargaining table.

Western Canada port employers and their longshore union met separately with a federal mediator Saturday, but the talks ended quickly with no new bargaining scheduled.

Ships are waiting at anchor after port employers at Vancouver and Prince Rupert on Monday locked out union forepersons after contract talks broke down.

The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association representing ocean carriers and terminal operators plan to lock out union forepersons after the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union rejected a final contract offer.

The Prince Rupert Port Authority is starting construction on a project that will increase rail-to-container transloading at the Canadian port, particularly for agricultural, forestry and plastic resin products.

Rail volumes to and from the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert are returning to normal after the 13-day strike in July, although capacity to catch up on the backlog appears limited for now, according to RailState’s analysis of its data.

U.S. rail imports from Vancouver and Prince Rupert are imperiled again. ILWU Canada has rejected the proposed dockworkers contract.

The extended strike in western Canada was beginning to affect U.S. supply chains. Its resolution limits the fallout.

Although international intermodal traffic has come to a halt at the Canadian West Coast ports since the start of the work stoppage on July 1, carload volumes for commodities such as coal and grain have grown, according to supply chain data visibility firm RailState.

U.S. imports via Canadian ports face rising fallout as the war of words escalates between dockworkers and employers.

As the labor strike continues at the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, Class I railroads are taking steps to ensure that their networks face minimal disruptions.

More than 7,400 dockworkers in Canada remain on strike Wednesday after labor contract negotiations with their employer have stalled.

More than 7,400 dockworkers have gone on strike in Canada, potentially causing disruptions at ports in Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

Anchorages are filling up with ships off multiple ports — not just California’s. Yet the reasons behind the traffic jams are not always the same.

British Columbia seeks to ramp up its export capacity of propane at Canadian west coast ports, and CN is the only Class I railway serving the Port of Prince Rupert.

Quebec startup prepares to enter U.S. market with digital platform offering smaller carriers easy accesses to trailers, and large fleets to minimize unused assets.

Company says it plans to charge about C$10,000 for each aircraft and route as it prepares to scale up to commercial operations.

As ocean carriers bring in ever-larger container ships to the U.S., the Port of New York and New Jersey says it is ready to handle them. Last week, the YM World made its first U.S. East Coast port call at Global Container Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. The ultra-large container ship, owned by Taiwan’s Yang […]