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Cargo Trends: Port Metro Vancouver

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Port Metro Vancouver: First Half 2015 Containers Up 8%, Cargo Tonnage Up 1.5% 

Some 70.3 million metric tons of cargo moved through Port Metro Vancouver during first half 2015, an increase from a year ago of 1.5 percent, according to data released last week by the port authority.

Increases in wheat, sulfur, potash, lumber and consumer goods offset declines in coal and petroleum products. Breakbulk and dry bulk dry movements rose by 2 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

The port’s container trade jumped 8 percent, due in great part, the port says, to cargo diversion earlier this year from congestion-plagued U.S. ports and deflated results last year from the 28-day Vancouver trucking dispute in March 2014.

"The port continues to grow in response to increasing consumer and international demand," said Port President & CEO Robin Silvester. "It remains critical that we continue working with government and other stakeholders to build related infrastructure and maintain the supply of available land to support trade and goods movement."

Port Metro Vancouver’s Centerm and Vanterm container terminals.
Photo/Port Metro Vancouver
 

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