Don7, how is the container port being received by the people of Prince Rupert? Most of the citizens in our area in Delta and all the way up to Vancouver are very upset about the traffic that our DeltaPort expansion will bring to the area. I have to admit, I've looked into it and it seems that port expansion is ill-conceived due to all of the traffic that trucks already have trying to travel northeast through Vancouver. Besides, there is a fragile ecological area where migrating birds stop to feed that will be lost due to the port expansion. The feeling among most people is to ship and receive from Prince Rupert and avoid the Vancouver congestion. Premier Gordon Campbell begs to differ.
As much as I am ecology minded, I'll have to admit I enjoyed watching the long coal trains and container trains; first BC Rail and now CN.
-Ed
Check out the map for CN, note how easy it is to move goods to Chicago and Texas for that matter from Prince Rupert. Note that the grades on the route also are advantageours to the shipper CN. I read that CN had purchased 75 new engines to handle the first phase of the two phase project. Second phase is approx. 3 times the number of containers. As the BC Northwest is dependent upon the US housing market the forest economy is to say the lease most depressing. Hence the container facility is a god send to the economy.
IMX Terminals and Ports
CN’s rail network connects to the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia on the Pacific coast