Canadian Sailings articles from May 2008

Canadian Sailings archives from May 2008

Manufacturers and Exporters Group Signs Deal with India''s Premier Business Association.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By KATHLYN HORIBE Earlier this year, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters signed a letter of intent with the Confederation of Indian Industry, India''s premier business association. The agreement was inked in New Delhi during the...

Everyone on the Bandwagon.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By KATHLYN HORIBE It seems everyone is jumping on the Canada-Asia trade bandwagon. Earlier this year, Defence Minister Peter MacKay led the Atlantic Canada Gateway trade mission to India. In April, Toronto Mayor David Miller...

Safmarine Appoints New Africa Region Executive.
May 5, 2008... Multi-trade shipping line Safmarine has appointed Jonathan Horn as its new Africa region executive. Mr. Horn takes over from Alan Jones, who will occupy a new role, senior key account executive for Safmarine''s South African-based accounts,...

Study to Examine Infrastructure Requirements.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY It should be a busy year for transportation consultants. Not only will Transport Canada be hiring a bunch of them to work on its rail freight service review, it is looking for some to conduct a study called North...

Lloyd''s Register Educational Trust Announces Maritime Technology Student Award.
May 5, 2008... The Lloyd''s Register Educational Trust (LRET) has signed an agreement with the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in the U.S. to sponsor a Maritime Technology Student of the Year competition and award in North America....

Lloyd''s Register Acquires Halifax Engineering Firm.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By TOM PETERS Lloyd''s Register Americas Inc. has acquired a Halifax-based engineering firm. Martec specializes in developing advanced engineering simulation technology for the design and analysis of complex structures and systems...

Sdv Helps Deliver Cargo in Record Time.
May 5, 2008... SDV International Logistics teams in North America and Canada recently handled the transportation of various materials to Mirabel airport near Montreal for consolidation and loading aboard a B747 cargo aircraft for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso....

New Halifax Airport Boss Looks to Build Cargo Business.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By TOM PETERS Building the cargo business is on the mind of the new president and CEO of the Halifax International Airport Authority. Tom Ruth, who took over the top job at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in January, has...

Great Lakes Feeder Lines'' Ship Comes In.
May 5, 2008... Great Lakes Feeder Lines has closed a deal on the purchase of Canada''s first dedicated, European-style, modern, short-sea shipping vessel. GLFL said the deal for the German-built, multi-cargo Dutch Runner was signed in Bremen on April 22....

Huge Hydraulic Shovel Moves Through Halifax.
May 5, 2008... A Terex RH 400, the world''s biggest hydraulic excavator, moved through the Port of Halifax recently. The pieces that make up the huge shovel arrived aboard the Wallenius Wilhelmsen vessel M/V Faust. It is the second RH 400 that Wallenius has...

Port of Montreal Eyes Huge Expansion Plans.
May 5, 2008... BYLINE: By BRENT FREDERICK, Associate Editor The Port of Montreal has unveiled Vision 2020, a 12-year, four-phase strategic development plan that would triple the port''s annual container-handling capacity to 4.5 million TEUs. In a speech...

Port Boss Comes Out Swinging.
May 12, 2008... Karen Oldfield, president and CEO of the Halifax Port Authority, and the port authority board must feel like there is a group photo of themselves tacked to a dartboard somewhere. Ms. Oldfield and the board have been taking a lot of heat...

Urban Goods Movement to Become Even More Challenging, Workshop Told.
May 12, 2008... BYLINE: By MARK WILSON In a bid for bragging rights to rail and road congestion and fractured control over land use planning and other issues, the home side lost to Chicago at a recent urban goods movement conference in Vancouver....

Csl President Speaks Out Against Overly Costly Environmental Proposals.
May 12, 2008... BYLINE: By JULIE GEDEON Canada Steamship Lines'' president acknowledges change is essential to reduce shipping''s environmental footprint, but he criticizes several current proposals as unsustainable and/or scientifically unsupported. ...

Shipping Industry Encouraged to Come Out of Its Shell.(Company overview)(Conference notes)
May 12, 2008... BYLINE: By KATHLYN HORIBE The shipping industry needs to come out of its shell to acquire a better public image, said Carleen Lyden-Kluss, president of Morgan Marketing & Communications. She made the comment in her presentation on the role...

Some Shippers Slow to Respond to Carriers'' Environmental Initiatives.
May 12, 2008... BYLINE: By JULIE GEDEON Shipping lines must work together as an industry with regulators if they want to retain maximum flexibility while minimizing their environmental impact, says Maersk Line''s director of environment. "It''s our...

Suzuki Challenges Shipping Industry to Commit to Finding Sustainable Means.
May 12, 2008... BYLINE: By JULIE GEDEON David Suzuki says he''s a big fan of shipping as one of the most efficient ways of transporting large amounts of goods. "We need shipping as a huge part of our transportation sector in the coming years," he told...

Wista Renews Association Status in Canada.
May 19, 2008... Canada has renewed its status as an official national association of the Women''s International Shipping and Trading Association. WISTA International is a networking organization for women involved in the maritime transportation business...

Oceanex Announces New Backhaul Reefer Rate for Shipment of Fish.
May 19, 2008... Oceanex Inc. has announced a new backhaul reefer rate for the shipment of fish from Corner Brook and St. John''s to Halifax. The backhaul rate for fish for the 2008 summer shipping season is now $600 from Corner Brook and $750 from St....

Canada Steamship Lines Expands Fleet.
May 19, 2008... Canada Steamship Lines, a division of The CSL Group Inc., has entered into an agreement with Fednav Ltd. to purchase four of that company''s ocean-going Handysize bulk carriers. The vessels, all sister ships, currently sail as the Lake...

Shipping Industry to Keep Close Watch on Administrative Monetary Penalties.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY The shipping industry will keep a close watch on how Transport Canada implements its administrative monetary penalty system for marine safety infractions. Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon announced in late...

Scl, Logistics Institute Become ''Partners in Professionalism''.
May 19, 2008... The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Canada and the Canadian Professional Logistics Institute have announced their new Partnership in Professionalism. Logistics Institute chair Jim Davidson and SCL chair Mike Mroczkowski signed a...

Keith Barry Olsen.
May 19, 2008... It is with great sadness we announce that Keith Barry Olsen passed away quietly early Sunday morning, May 4. Mr. Olsen was chairman of Maersk Canada Inc. from 2000 through 2007, after serving as president and chairman since the company''s...

Canpotex Delays Decision on Location of Increased Potash Exports.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By MARK WILSON The board of Canpotex Ltd. has postponed to June a decision as to where on the West Coast it will direct increased exports of potash. Canpotex, the marketing and distribution subsidiary of three Saskatchewan...

Marine Industry Caucus Focuses on Issues.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By MIKE WALLACE, MP (Burlington), Chair of the federal Marine Industry Caucus As ships pass Burlington, Ontario, to enter Hamilton Harbour nearly every day, it is impossible to ignore the importance of the marine and shipping...

Chamber of Marine Commerce Welcomes Six New Members.
May 19, 2008... The Chamber of Marine Commerce has welcomed Norton Lilly International, Melford International Terminal Inc., Montreal Gateway Terminals, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, WestPier Marine and Answer North America as new members. "We''re...

Commons Oks Marine Act Amendments.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY The Commons has finally passed amendments to the Canada Marine Act that will give the 19 Canadian Port Authorities more latitude to raise funds for expansion projects. The bill still has to be approved by the...

''Developing the Gateway'' Focus of Saint John Port Days.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Saint John Port Authority is shining the spotlight on the ubiquitous ''gateway'' theme at its annual Port Days on June 9-10. It''s a timely topic given the inaugural meeting of the Southern New Brunswick...

Low Speed for High Speed.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By WILBROD LeCLERC French high-speed train supplier Alstom recently won a contract to build the first high-speed rail passenger line in South America. This high-speed train, the train a grande vitesse (TGV) as it is known in...

Profile: Ruth Snowden, Executive Director, Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association.
May 19, 2008... BYLINE: By JACK KOHANE From the fields of her family farm to managing the flow of goods as a logistics specialist, the arc of Ruth Snowden''s rise to the forefront of the freight forwarding industry has had some unexpected twists and...

Deltaport Third Berth on Track for Fall 2009 Completion.
May 26, 2008... The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says construction of its Deltaport Third Berth (DP3) at Roberts Bank in Delta, B.C., is on schedule for completion in fall 2009. The first perimeter dike and infilling has been completed and preloading to...

Back to the Drawing Board.
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY Growing highway congestion and the thickening Canada-United States border are big speed bumps for the just-in-time freight delivery system. But rising fuel prices combined with the possibility of petroleum shortages...

Federal Polaris Opens Thunder Bay''s 2008 International Shipping Season.
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By WILLIAM HRYB It''s becoming a habit for Capt. Reynaldo Derige to open up a Canadian port to ocean shipping. On Jan. 24, the seasoned master of the M/V Federal Polaris entered Port Alfred on the St. Lawrence River to inaugurate...

Windsor Welcomes First Ships of 2008 Season.
May 26, 2008... The BBC Delaware was the first ocean-going vessel in the Port of Windsor in the 2008 navigation season. The Delaware arrived at the Morterm Ltd. terminal on April 9. It unloaded windmill parts destined for Port Alma, Ont. It was the first...

Trucking Special: News Briefs.
May 26, 2008... Alberta man named Canada''s Driver of the Year Perley MacDonald, a transport truck driver with McMillan Transport Ltd. of Medicine Hat, Alta., is the Canadian Trucking Alliance/Volvo Trucks Canada Driver of the Year for 2007. The award...

Trucking Special: Increasing Price of Diesel Fuels Concern in Atlantic Canada.
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By Tom Peters Many trucking companies in Atlantic Canada are operating at a loss and the ever-increasing price of diesel is fuelling concern in the industry, says the general manager of Keltic Transportation in Moncton. Shane...

Trucking Special: Atlantic Canada Truckers Have Mixed Feelings About Proposed Highway Through Maine.
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By Tom Peters Atlantic Canada''s trucking industry has mixed feelings about a proposed $1-billion toll highway across Maine that would connect New Brunswick and southern Quebec. While the road would cut travelling time...

Trucking Special: Family-Run Company Ensures Customers Are Connected.(Company overview)
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe Simard Transport has just launched a web-based system that allows truckload and less-than-truckload customers to track their deliveries online. For the company''s container customers, this information has been...

Trucking Special: Trucking Alliance Applauds Federal Program to Enable Environmental Technology Testing.
May 26, 2008... The Canadian Trucking Alliance says it is pleased with a May 6 announcement by Transport Canada that funding under the department''s ecoFreight Program will be awarded to trucking companies across the country, most of which are members of...

Trucking Special: Environmentally Friendly Trucks: Green Fleet Gears Up.
May 26, 2008... BYLINE: By JACK KOHANE "Get the lead out" is the rallying cry in the ''go green'' movement. And armed with a full load of cutting-edge innovations, truckers are getting on board to accelerate the push for more environmentally friendly...