Canadian Sailings articles from October 2007

Canadian Sailings archives from October 2007

A Dangerous Business.
October 1, 2007... BYLINE: By NORMAN LOISEAU Last week''s column featured a back to school quiz on dangerous goods handling. Here are the answers. If you got less than 10 correct, it''s definitely time to take a comprehensive course; 10-12 correct, a...

Executive Structure Announced for Proposed Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.
October 8, 2007... Gordon Houston, transition CEO for the merger of the three Lower Mainland ports in British Columbia, has announced the executive appointments for the proposed Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. The appointments are effective upon receipt of the...

McAsphalt Marine Expands Black Oil Fleet for Great Lakes, Eastern Seaboard.
October 8, 2007... Building on the success of sister vessels the McAsphalt 401 and the Norman McLeod, McAsphalt Marine Transportation Limited has announced that construction of a new tug and barge combination is on schedule and will launch in summer 2008. This...

Bumpy Ride Ahead for Dockworker Security Screening?
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY It could be a bumpy ride for the five ports and the workers facing a Dec. 15 deadline from Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon for implementing a new marine security screening program. After several years of...

Industry Coalition Supports Government''s Pilotage Reform.
October 8, 2007... The Chamber of Marine Commerce has sent a letter to the Government of Canada, co-signed by 14 leading industry associations, supporting government changes to Canada''s system of marine pilotage. The coalition of associations - referred to as...

Master Mariners Stage Seminar.
October 8, 2007... The Company of Master Mariners of Canada is holding a seminar entitled Vessels in Crisis: The Master''s Dilemma on the Great Lakes, in Hamilton on Oct. 11-12. The seminar involves a simulation of a ship in a catastrophic marine incident...

Advantage North Conference Examines Transport As a ''key Enabler'' of Resource Development.
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By BRENT FREDERICK, Associate Editor Transportation and its relationship to economic development - and more specifically resource development - in the North was the theme of the Advantage North conference held in Whitehorse, Yukon....

Intermodal Horizons.
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY Two recent Greenpeace publicity stunts that interfered with commercial shipping have left the marine community quietly fuming at the federal government''s uneven approach to security. On one hand, Ottawa has...

Trade Winds: China Now, Other Nations Later.
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By PETER MALKOVSKY During the mid-1980s, many experts and pundits were predicting that the upcoming 21st century was going to belong to the Asian nations as they developed economically and exerted more influence in international...

Huge Opportunities, Huge Challenges.
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By KATHLYN HORIBE China''s economy hit another milestone in September when it surpassed Canada as the No. 1 vendor of goods to the United States. In a 12-month period from August 2006 to July 2007, the Asia-Pacific country sold...

Oceanex Enters into Purchase Agreement.
October 8, 2007... BYLINE: By TOM PETERS Anew consortium that includes a private Ontario pension fund has made an offer to purchase Montreal-based Oceanex Income Fund. The fund owns the Oceanex shipping line that provides a short-sea service to Newfoundland...

Defence Requires Long-Term Plan.
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By SHARON HOBSON The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been in office for almost two years and has yet to produce the promised "Canada First" defence policy. It has provided, however, money, equipment...

Prince Rupert Terminal Gets Rolling at End of Month.
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By MARK WILSON CN will run its first container train from the new Fairview Terminal in Prince Rupert on Oct. 31 - the same day that the Cosco Antwerp is due to make its maiden call at the northern British Columbia port. The CN...

Cta Prepares to Rule on Hopper Car Dispute.
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By ALEX BINKLEY The Canadian Transportation Agency will rule by Jan. 19 on the latest complaint filed by Prairie grain shippers about CN Rail''s level of service. It announced the deadline after talks between the shippers and...

Canada Maritime Conference: Taddeo Receives Lifetime Achievement Award.
October 22, 2007... Canadian Sailings|Transportation & Trade Logistics has given its annual Lifetime Achievement Award to Dominic Taddeo, president and CEO of the Montreal Port Authority. Joyce Hammock, publisher and editor of Canadian Sailings, presented the...

Canada Maritime Conference: They Said It ...[paragraph].
October 22, 2007... "Like it or not, globalization is not going away and there is nowhere to hide. But contrary to the historical rant we hear in Canada, we are not confronted by some dark sinister force... If we miss this window, we may never recover... We are...

Canada Maritime Conference: Northwest Passage Hailed As Potential Trade Corridor.(Conference notes)
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Alan Daniels Canada''s Northwest Passage will become an international waterway for commercial shipping that may one day rival the Panama Canal, delegates to the second annual Canada Maritime Conference were told by an...

Canada Maritime Conference: Soaring Freight Rates, Emergence of Developing Nations Jeopardizing Export.(Conference notes)
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Alan Daniels Customers around the world are lining up to buy Canadian resources, with coal, canola, potash and sulphur flowing from western Canadian ports at near record levels, delegates to the second annual Canada Maritime...

Canada Maritime Conference: Call for Greater Co-Operation, Communication.(Conference notes)
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Alan Daniels Canada''s railways are working more closely together than ever before and have made huge investments in locomotives and railcars to meet capacity challenges that could hinder the nation''s growth as a global trader,...

Canada Maritime Conference: B.C. Government Extends Port Tax Relief Initiative.
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Alan Daniels The British Columbia government is extending for 10 years its tax relief initiative for port operators, B.C. Transport Minister Kevin Falcon told the second annual Canada Maritime Conference in Vancouver. ...

Canada Maritime Conference: Shippers Ask Service Providers for the Facts.(Conference notes)
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Alan Daniels A major Canadian retailer has urged the Port of Vancouver to set up a help line where customers can get information about their goods in the event of delays caused by bad weather, labour disputes, avalanches or...

Reflecting on This Year.
October 22, 2007... BYLINE: By Peter Cairns, President , Shipbuilding Association of Canada As we are now into the fourth quarter of 2007, I thought it might be useful to look at some of the events of this year and how they have affected the shipbuilding...

Redline Communications Selects Kuehne + Nagle to Deliver Supply Chain Solution.
October 29, 2007... Redline Communications, a provider of standards-based wireless broadband solutions, has selected Kuehne + Nagle to provide a global supply chain solution. The system will integrate international and domestic transportation management, contract...

Itl Business Briefs.
October 29, 2007... Samsung selects ANSYS software The global shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. of Seoul, Korea, recently selected ANSYS Inc.''s technology to improve the quality and fluid dynamics of its tankers, vessels and other...

Oocl Helps to Provide Safe Drinking Water to India.
October 29, 2007... Orient Overseas Container Line has always embraced community responsibility as one of its core values and has taken every opportunity to practise good citizenship in the communities in which it operates. Recently, OOCL demonstrated this...

Rise and Fall of U.S. Economy Impacts the World''s.
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe At the end of February, due to a major stock sell-off in China, the Toronto Stock Exchange experienced its biggest one-day percentage plunge in almost three years. The New York Stock Exchange also suffered its...

Reshaping China''s Transportation System.
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Victor Deyglio In international trade, it is essential to be cognizant of how global supply chains are driven by multiple forces and geo-political and economic developments. The focus of this article is on infrastructure...

How Business Is Conducted in India.
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe Understanding the culture of a country can make the difference between a successful business relationship and a failed one. As a sign of respect, most business people are familiar with Japanese etiquette. India as...

India''s Oldest Global Logistics Company Promotes the Port of Halifax.
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe The Halifax Port Authority went on a fact finding trip to India last year to explore more business opportunities for the port. One of the stops was at Agra, the city where the Taj Mahal is situated. Some...

Building the Steel Bridge.(Company overview)
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe Two of Canada''s conglomerates, Dofasco and Algoma, were recently scooped up by ArcelorMittal and Essar Steel, two of India''s steel giants. The former ranks as the number one producer in the world, while the...

Canada and India Strengthen Their Trade Ties.
October 29, 2007... BYLINE: By Kathlyn Horibe With a population of over 1.1 billion, India boasts the world''s largest emerging consumer market. By instituting wide-ranging economic reforms in the 1990s, India reinvented itself and, today, the country is...